Poetry

Rains Rain

by Betsy Warland

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Cancelled bike ride, wet shoes,
unmown lawn of rain

Destroyed crop of
saved crop of

Rain is
without rationale
without reproach

Rain rains

It is we who suffer
the melancholy of meaning.
 

Betsy Warland has published nine books of poetry and non-fiction. She recently completed a poetry narrative, Colour Quartet, and a prose manuscript on writing, Breathing the Page. She is the coordinator of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. 

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