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.
