the_promise_of_rain
raze car knifes through
skittish gravel,
making music as it goes.

a voice and the body
it belongs to shrinking
to a murmur, a pinprick.

blue-grey quilt not
near enough to touch
promises a small flood
to be wrung from
its deepest dermis
by careless hands.

it isn't a threat when
there's no doubting the outcome.

promises are perfect
swimmers, solemn
and unknowable.

threats are kinder things.
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