In the Small Rain's Mist

from Send My Roots Rain by Joseph Bottum

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In the Small Rain’s Mist
reimagining “Pearla An Bhrollaig Bhain” (c. 1700)

See the leaves there, yellow and brown,
as they skate across the lawn.
In the fall’s first chill, they’re dancing through the hours.
And the garden stays in bloom,
bright with marigold and broom,
and the aster, too—the late year’s last few flowers.

There’s a western gate, I know,
and one day I will go
to see what lies along that unknown lane.
But today the hour is late.
I must take the eastern gate
and go down to sleep as easy as the rain.

All the crimson vines on the wall
are now brushed with hints of fall,
and the wind has swept the western gate with leaves.
In the small rain’s mist, it seems
like a door to warmer dreams
and a way beyond the dark that winter weaves.

I can hear the wind’s wild voice,
as it cries for some new choice—
for a world unspoiled and unwalked paths to roam.
But tomorrow’s chores are plain.
All the common worlds remain.
I must turn my collar up and leave for home.

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from Send My Roots Rain, released August 21, 2014

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