Academic journal article Hecate
On Days like Today
Article excerpt
It is so much easier
when it rains like this.
Things feel right
in this kind of light and
it doesn't seem to matter
that I hardly leave the house.
Don't need to think of the
Whole World
out there.
Not even a hint of it!
I squint through the wet,
looking for Something.
Nothing!
Not even a hint of it!
No reason to care
that there might be a
Whole World,
out there.
I could laugh all day
on days like today!
There is no one to see -
and no one sees me -
for the light is so pressing,
so forgiving and grey,
on days like today.
This kind of day
seems to say to me:
The insides of things
are better
than their outsides!
That's what it seems to say,
this kind of day,
that it's more than okay to watch the world
through windows.
The world is not your oyster!
roars the rain at me today
as it hurls against the pane
as it hurls against the pane.
The oyster is your world!
says the sky to me today,
says the sky to me today
till it turns, and rolls away.
The sky turns on me,
and rolls away.
Here is the sun. …