Rainy Day Man Emotions bleed and Fertilize the seed. Embryonic pain Spouts through the rain. Stillborn dreams Silence screams. Joyful tears every One million years. Bleeding knees Need bleeding. Against my chest Lie cold breasts. Undilated eyes so Tears can upward rise. Drowning pools form to Escape the storm. A hiding place where Dirt covers my face.
—Submitted on 10/03/2022
Charles J. March III is a hospital corpsman veteran currently living in Orange County, CA. His poems have appeared in Dissident Voice, Revolution John, The Recusant, and other journals.
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