Rain
this afternoon it seems endless, the rain
and full of the earth’s sadness
generations of tear drops falling, undifferentiated
flinging their million, million, million tiny lifetimes to the ground
their grainy flickering films the garden – a piece of newsreel footage,
which, being warm and dry indoors, I largely ignore
but I gaze out through the glass from time to time
until, without wanting to, I remember the news
police are out there searching now
somewhere where rain and tears are endless
Annie Fisher is literacy consultant and storyteller based in Somerset.
*October 2012 – the search for April Jones