Monday 30 September 2024

puddle cloud rain





















Only water, pooled in a rut, echoing sky in vague ripples; only ever water, as the cloud lowered, smothering the blue behind in mist.
Between, rain came in the rising air to broach the hills to the south: plunging rain, driven rain, the long rain that joins the heavens to the earth.

puddle cloud and rain
water as iteration
an ocean of change
© BH, 2024

An ekphrastic response to Jean Duncan’s print, ‘Puddles, Clouds and Rain’. This is in the form of a haibun or, at least, a modified version.

Haibun is a Japanese poetic form consisting of a prose piece with a linked haiku.

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