Rainy Sunday.
The sky is the same
tone of gray it has been
almost every day
for a month.
Faded lilacs
across the way
do little
to contrast the
oppressive dreariness.
I wish
that the kids
had been out
yesterday
creating graffiti
with their chalk
so that we could
today have seen
a river of many colors
bleeding
down
the
street.
-Jeff Barnes