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Late-Afternoon Rain

                              

 

For perhaps half an hour,

The rain has ceased its rattling-can rataplan

On streets, trees, rooftops, and traffic.

 

Now, the sky's ominous cast

Has metamorphosed from ugly gray-black

To mottled shafts of crepuscular light.

 

Trying to recall the tempest's transitory rage,

All I'm left with are images:

A foreboding seascape by Winslow Homer,

 

A Thomas Cole Catskills storm scene,

A Jackson Pollock splatter-tantrum —

Everything but what it really was.

 

 

 

 

                                

 

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