{"id":107204,"date":"2022-06-25T09:56:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107204"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:58:48","slug":"2022-hour-1-cyclops-knowing-and-the-rain-on-etna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/2022-hour-1-cyclops-knowing-and-the-rain-on-etna\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Hour 1 \u201cCyclops, Knowing and the Rain on Etna\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

2022 Hour 1 \u201cCyclops, Knowing and the Rain on Etna\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The joy of it, my face turned to the sky<\/span><\/p>\n

Soft rain falling like a benediction <\/span><\/p>\n

Day after day, night after night, week upon week<\/span><\/p>\n

So much – so SO much<\/span><\/p>\n

That even here, atop the hill the land is sodden with it, my feet sinking<\/span><\/p>\n

The rain though, is warm, welcoming <\/span><\/p>\n

So warm, blood warm<\/span><\/p>\n

Warmer even? Warmer than me?<\/span><\/p>\n

Warm like love, like joy<\/span><\/p>\n

like the embrace of the world, the earth, the mother Gaia – all\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

three?<\/span><\/p>\n

A madness overtakes thought, me, reason<\/span><\/p>\n

Shucking raincoat, sock and shoes – I spy a bright gold-tone potting table beckoning <\/span><\/p>\n

Taking it up, I heft it out onto the lush jewel green grass into a clear open space <\/span><\/p>\n

Feet sinking deep into the warm wet welcoming earth with its added weight <\/span><\/p>\n

Canary yellow set against jewel green under a metal grey sky, and I: clad in white, clamber up and tip my face into the warm, warmer, warmest, welcoming <\/span><\/p>\n

rain <\/span><\/p>\n

Rain<\/span><\/p>\n

RAIN<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually I come to know <\/span><\/p>\n

To KNOW <\/span><\/p>\n

That I am small, but part of this, all of this<\/span><\/p>\n

That is beautiful, and still terrible <\/span><\/p>\n

That is can be warm, yet need not be<\/span><\/p>\n

That is can be all extremes, and everything in between <\/span><\/p>\n

That it can create and destroy <\/span><\/p>\n

That is simply IS, and so am I<\/span><\/p>\n

That it is immense, and I am not<\/span><\/p>\n

That I cannot predict it, and that\u2019s ok<\/span><\/p>\n

That there is a joy in that knowing, that accepting<\/span><\/p>\n

That there was, and is, and remains – joy in the ever unfolding not-knowing<\/span><\/p>\n

Merry – LordCricket 2022 poetry marathon<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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