Manchester Weather Watching
Coasting by roof reefs the rain
A storm at sail through habitation
Rough casts at your window pane
Clouds on the march though stone
Corners cut into their formation
Coasting by roof reefs the rain
Runs raids across an afternoon
Obscuring atmospheric motion
Rough casts at your window pane
Against your fragile visor screen
Its liquid grey ammunition
Coasting by roof reefs the rain
Reaches the demarcation line
Containing pent up insulation
Rough casts at your window pane
Sprawling the droplets slide down
Short of their irrigating mission
Coasting by roof reefs the rain
Rough casts at your window pane
Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog)is a poet and academic, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Scintilla, Ink Sweat & Tears, and other journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published by Eyewear in December, 2017.
I really enjoyed this. I read it out loud and got a wee bit tongue twisted but that is the Scottish R tripping me up. Very nice work
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