Sonny Rainshine Poems

So many miles of earth and rock
and we linger here on the surface,
living on the crust, and dying just beneath.
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Just as you to inhospitable places
are drawn, so am I.

Just as some je ne sais quoi
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On some days the sky is not cerulean blue,
it is not azure or indigo, nor is it the tint
of someone’s grandmother’s antique ewer.
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Pale green-swirled cradle,
rock-a-bye in the cool breeze.
Dream of butterflies.
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A single needle drops from the pine,
but the tree remains.
A storm snaps off a branch,
but the trunk stays.
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I was born unhappy.
I will live unhappily.
You are the only person
who can release me
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The space between you and me, the air,
is a conduit for conversations past, all jumbled,
declarations of love and idle curses,
folded into the wind.
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Not that long ago, she was so sure
that affection and love were entitlements,
promised and secure,
sort of a social security of the heart.
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She dispenses the lava of her wrath,
molten and churning with chunks of regret,
into everyone she meets,
measuring it into compartments,
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Those moments just before a late summer storm
when wind gusts test the mettle of the branches
of the trees and yanks on the mellowing leaves
as if to loosen them for autumn’s sweeping-out,
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