You Don’t Have to Answer

What if every drop of rain needs the patch

of sidewalk where it lands? Every sky

needs cumulous to fill it? I need the umbrella

that needs the raindrops to shape the wet arch

overhead. We are all here because I put

us here. I need here and us

and this poem to put things in.

What does the poem need? Or do you

need the poem? The umbrella knows you need the poems.