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Hard rain. Under a monochrome cloud ceiling, the colors are intense: laurel green, tree-trunk sable, dried-grass yellow, leaf-litter rust.
Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Hard rain. Under a monochrome cloud ceiling, the colors are intense: laurel green, tree-trunk sable, dried-grass yellow, leaf-litter rust.
Dave Bonta's short poem catches a moment most of us would call dreary and shows how vivid it actually is. The opening sets the scene plainly: heavy rain, and a sky that is one flat, gray-toned mass. Then comes the turn.
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