Domesticity

Doing laundry in New Orleans

Washing dishes to the rain,

Water getting on my jeans

While my thoughts wash down the drain.

Storms full of power bringing silence to my brain

Nature’s violent fortitude

Mixing together peace and pain

Oak trees

Thunder

Roots, all brave

It’s 6 am and I’m sitting on the screened in porch

Mystified watching a hurricane scorch the Earth

The day dark and close, a time for reprieve

The sky pours out

Bringing water and relief

Lovers kept inside

Quiet peace and ease,

I take refuge in this moment

Even though it’s brief.

I like the rain alone,

But I like it more with you

Silent listening

As the Earth

Is covered in fresh dew.