A Wet Day

This is a day
when corpulent clouds,
pregnant with rain,
screen the sky, grey out
the blue, puddle the earth
and quench its thirst.

Children in colourful
wellies stamp and splash
in leaf-filled puddles
and domed umbrellas
repel plump drops
that bounce and plop.

Kim M. Russell, 19th October 2026

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It’s Quadrille Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub and Lisa is hosting with Q 258 ‘I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen…’

Lisa says that she will do her best to entice our muses to dance along to the prompt and write 44-word poems including a word she has given us, which is ‘screen’.

She reminds us that a screen is not just what we might be staring at right now, but they are “other things as well. Something that blocks something else, like the windscreen of an automobile. Window screens keep bugs out. Ornately scrolled wood or bamboo movable walls that one undresses behind. Or a filter that employers use to investigate your personal history. Something prospectors use to sift gold from sand. Drug screens to prove you aren’t using to your probation officer. A cream you put on your skin to avoid being burned by the sun. A tool used for ruling in or out certain conditions.”

I enjoyed the example poems, especially the one by Patricia Guzman, which uses nature to hide one thing from another.

14 thoughts on “A Wet Day”

      1. You’re welcome, Kim. I always knew you were a child at heart.

        Mine are lipstick pink, picked up at a Goodwill store years ago when we (juvenile court) used to have hanging basket fundraisers for mother’s day at a place whose lawn was always sopping wet.

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