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# Summer Shower
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/summer-shower-16373393/
- Published: 2022-02-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: umbrellas mushroom as the drizzle accelerates from drip to drop splish splash, the raindrops hiss and sizzle the melting street a cooking top
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

umbrellas mushroom as the drizzle  
accelerates from drip to drop  
splish splash, the raindrops hiss and sizzle  
the melting street a cooking top

the air, still thick with pregnant pauses  
expels the acid from its veins  
the drenched, so certain of their causes  
won't let the rain dictate who reigns

the fever breaks, albeit slightly  
prevailing upon cooler heads  
those that can disagree politely  
those seeing more than blues and reds

the torrent ends, as if by faucet  
transforming into finer mist  
I fold umbrella and then toss it  
and practice opening my fist