Flamegold Rain Trees in Bloom

The river smiles to let me know

I am not alone, no place to go

For friends from far may come to show

Faster than a friend nearby

My lips licked rich on moistened edge

Seal my fate on slippery ledge

When downward pours the drowning sky

Dusk birds sweetly tweet arouse

Sun like a parasol laced with clouds

Raising the stakes, gambling allowed

Distinctive in the vast remain

Scoring points off pinball bumpers

As rain into a river thunders 

To the Strait from narrow passage strain

Blind man’s paradise described paraded

To my bed mate's distant window shaded

Quenches me and those who have waited

In endless dreams of musical streams

Sans second guesses on our benches

Bearing down on tightened wenches

Wave us through like dyke gate bream

Look what all the storm rain brought

Golden trees for tasks well fought

Blooming wild in swell rain caught

Plum rain lesson? water barrel

Outreached flames of heart and sound

Look at all the truth we found

No one here need aim the arrow

June 7, 2019

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