WALKING IN THE RAIN
By: Joyce Chigiya [Zimbabwe]
I am going out
in the gentle summer rain, remnants of a storm
to feel the drenched cotton fabric
of this threadbare shirt cling on to me like a sheath
smell the parched earth suck in the season’s first rain
please come with me
We will paddle about cautiously though not to mash
too many snails
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