June 25: Before the rainfall

Was just poised in that moment right before you know rain is imminent, feeling the wind pick up a little and the air pressure shift, when someone called the office from southern Maine and asked if it was raining here yet. Right as he asked that, as if he invoked them, the first drops began to fall and thunder rumbled overhead. And now it's pouring. 


Before the rain falls
four crows fly into the trees,
sheltered now by green.