Friday 18 January 2013

ABRACADABRA


RAIN



ABRACADABRA!

waved the cloud closing our eyes

and like a conjurer’s bouquet

the back of the bakkie

flowered in the rain

into bunches of umbrellas

red, yellow and green.



Copyright Ruth Hartley



Seen in Lusaka one day in a rain shower when at once, a dozen women in the back of a pick-up truck opened their umbrellas.

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