Rainy Days

After a  summer of interminable, unseasonable heat 

and very little rainfall, the autumn has ushered 

in clouds with the precipitation we should have gotten 

three months before. The drought is reflected 

in the prices at the grocery; the bacon shortage is because

the corn drops died, burned up in the heat of  the sun, 

and farmers could not afford to feed their piggies.

The first rain was a deluge, the ones we're getting

now are light, steady, just what we need to soak the ground

 This shrub was cut back, but is responding like 

it is spring, producing new growth, holding large drops

of rain as if to cherish its existence.