Night Rainby Cherie Hunter Day
Written 26 April 1995. First published in Woodnotes #27, Winter 1995, page 33, and referred to in the author’s “Rengay: Going Solo” essay in Northwest Literary Forum, Autumn 1995. “Night Rain” is, I believe, the first solo rengay ever written.
night rain splashes in a bucket— downtown bus depot
someone else’s ticket stub stuck to the sole of my shoe
man in a trench coat waiting for his coffee to cool
another pass at the row of pay phones— she checks each slot
a lingering good-bye one last deep kiss
in the wake of a departing bus cherry petals
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