- Before Rain
Whatever you do, there are rockets falling,and after the rockets, smoke climbing
up through walls that are exploding.Trees grow up where there once were people, weeds
take over beds of lettuces and coddled flowers,uprearing mole hills unpopulate the fields.
The bricked-in hours of the human have all been knocked down.
No one lingers at lipstick counters, no onestares into a screen to escape the digital mayhem
of heroes hurdling over the heads of monsters.
The old bones on the mountain that stand uprightand shake when winds blow up from the shore,
old bones that shake when the winds roar
now dangle in the void of an unknown dimension.
Forget all this, says Earth to the stars.