Saadi Yousef

And because rain

Since you came to live here in the sub-urban hill

Is exhausted

Permanent

Imminent

Like the garden's gate or the house entrance

Like tree trunks

You started dreaming awake in rain

Rain of rose petals in the drizzle

Rain of big drops

Rain in waves drenching the shirts of drifting sailors

Mercy tropical rain in the thunder storm

Rain that you can't afford to hear:

Rain of locusts

Rain in the tendons of the country

Rain of ashes.

London 1.6.2005