Nine O’Clock AM

I open the front door.
The air is already hot, humid,
close. A watery sun barely makes
patches of light on the green
trees overhead before it's gone.

In a fallen brown magnolia leaf A few drops of rain have puddled. A
damp patch outside the door and the

black car stops in front of the house and
drops a young man off. He opens the garage door across the street and sits
waiting.

faint memory of a crash of thunder
in the middle of the night are all
there is to show that it rained.

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