Summer Downpour

 

on asphalt, concrete,

glass and slate;

drumming steel, aluminium

wood, copper, tin;

slapping tarpaulin and canvas,

polyester and polythene;

raindrops, billions,

thunderously:

a summer downpour

slowing now

slowing

fingers,

fingers tapping

buckets, barrels,

blocks, boxes, bricks,

hollows in canopies,

puddles, ponds and pools;

flicking leaves,

chattering light

as the sun finds crevices in the jet sky

tipping

tapping

now below the frequency of seconds,

dream-like, 

to isolated beats,

the new world of

water-lensed

colours teeming thunderously,

giddily,

answering sound

with a symphony of light.