Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RAIN, by ROBERTA S. VAN LOBEN SELS


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THE RAIN, by                    
First Line: Because I heard the rain tonight and fled
Last Line: To find quick april in the rain at night.
Subject(s): Rain


Because I heard the rain tonight and fled,
There will be infinitudes of rain again
In all my years, and I will learn to dread
A death and whitened bones etched thin as pain
By drops that breed a madness in the earth
And life in me without a muscle's move
To wrench fecundity of grass in birth
From off my mouth and in my finger's groove.

And I will find a cruelty in the rain
I would not seek -- a mute desire to still
Its voice, insistent, clamoring its refrain,
Demanding I my last thin passion kill.
For I have lost that power with my flight
To find quick April in the rain at night.





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