Overcast and when it starts
To come down a heavy headed
Tree appears to offer
Round its trunk a dry space
Above countless leaf strata
Parrying the downpour
To begin with it’s like a roof
Secure you hear the percolation
Working through the rafters
Until collected the outsize drops
Single out whatever tender
Spots are homing unwary
Martin Potter is a poet and academic, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Scintilla, and other journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published by Eyewear in December 2017. Read more at https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog.
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