WINDOW

WINDOW

my window open
rain
  thundering down

a bedraggled cat
caught in the downpour
squeezing his
lithe body
through the burglar guards

sometimes it is good
when natural storms
hit epic proportions

takes the gloss of
political storms, global
clashes that lead
to outright warfare

show us
that little in this moment
is worth elevating

our species
lacking the tactics
and strategy
to find peace at all

my window open
the rain still raging

everything thought here
under the shadow
of getting
washed away