The Night's Rain...... Poem by RIC BASTASA

to feel the
missing wing of
a dragon
fly,

a child has
played with it

to feel the cut
claws of the
dove,

a rat just ambushed
it and cut its feet

to feel the dimming moon
a dark cloud just
blocked it from view

to feel the dissolution
of the castle
made of sand

to be a child once again
always easily forgetting
what i feel

to be someone else's skin
someone's body
to wear another misery's
shoes

to forget a home to be lost
and be found in the pond

to see how that old frog jumps
again
splashing its body
in the new water brought
by the night rain.