Six Seasons Review #Rainstorms in the Mountains

1.       'Rainstorms in the Mountains' was pubished in Six Seasons Review, November 2017 issue.

        Rainstorms in the Mountains

                        

“Rain in the Mountains” ~ Ruskin Bond

“Mountains make love to the sky” ~ John Denver

The sky goddess wears a grey skirt

The blue and white hem grazes

the tops of mountains, until

it disappears, leaving the grey skirt

its voluminous swathes enveloping all

The folds of the grey skirt then turn white

Enclosing and trapping all in its impenetrable

Mist, its hugging white clinging moist embrace

Like a lover who demands more, more, more

A sudden wind whips up, leaves us huddling

Pitifully in our sparse, bare shawls, shivering

Scared of being blown away, seeking refuge

In a tumble-down shack. The rains in the mountains

Are sudden and swift. The street lies strewn

With fallen branches of deodars and tufts of pines

The telltale remains of an extravagant revelry

as I walk back to my tiny pitch black room

wooden staircase, wooden floors,

Wooden ceilings, and a lone candle flame.