Eye On Life Magazine

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Afternoon Rain

Afternoon rain weighs down 

The heavy heads of sunflowers

And surprises walkers

 

In the park—clothes cling

Like wet children

And I think of the autumn day

 

I last saw your face

Thirty-five years ago on campus

Slender in your green dress

 

Hands like two quivering birds

On the curve of my spine

That morning we kissed.

 

Later when you drove away

In your dad’s car

Afternoon rain raked down

 

The last maple leaves in clusters—

I walked back to my room

Through shallow red streams.

 

 — Dennis Trujillo