Newspaper On Rainy Day
Woven. The news today is a patchwork of a human breath.
Rivers swell with rain. The boughs of timber steadily clap.
In the wetted dulcet, flumes break then wilt. A denouement
occurs in the pulling on of seagreen socks. Toes push.
Flash! Animation to filament. Tungsten and argon converge
dancing as spindly mayflies in rapid mating before death.
Following the taut yarn to each end; “Engineers say Boeing
Managers pushed to limit safety tests”; “Shoreline man gets
55 years for exploiting girls online”; to another string, alas;
“Man burned at White House”; “Lots of little bits of plastic
wind up inside us”; “Opioid crisis comes to school”. Regret.
Doubt. Concentrate the emotion until the bulb pops black.
The window cascades a drumming, an imbroglio of sounds.
Susurrous and murmurous. Tinkling. A howl rushes by inured
to the violence of people performing. The yowl expounds.
Torrents, arid scapes. Waters lurching and trees aflame.
Paste the clippings along the wall and try to oust the ghosts.
Veiled, bucolic odors of the immediate world start to return.
Circling insects. Droplets begin short burps and gulps.
The ink and paper seem to decompose, life is recontained
in the light seeping, in the bright outdoor backdrop rolling
out a dewy virescent carpet—how cold was the island there?
That past, where I concluded nothing but rapacity and cloud?
Soil in the bed, I make way to the hillside of things rising.
“Woman wakes after 27 years unconscious”.
About the Author: Renwick Berchild is half literary critic, half poet. She is lead editor of Green Lion Journal and writes at Nothing in Particular Book Review. Her poems have appeared in Porridge Mag, Headline Press, Whimperbang, Free Verse Revolution, Vita Brevis, Streetcake, and other e-zines, anthologies, and journals. She was born and raised on the angry shores of Lake Superior, and now lives in a micro-apartment in Seattle, WA. Find more of her work at www.renwickberchild.com
Image Credit: Harris & Ewing “Newspapers coming off press” (1936) Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress
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