Capturing Rain
I stand apart,
for now I am always apart,
and watch the fast falling rain
briskly salt
the still surface of the lake,
and the lake conjures up
an invisible net,
interlacing loops opening,
spreading wide over the water
as though impelled to restrain
the rain’s excited exuberance,
as you snared my love,
before chilling my bursting heart,
and slowly submerging me in sorrow
beneath the bright surface
of your malice.
Anthony Wade
Anthony Wade is a graduate lawyer with a Master’s Degree, an Irish national
educated in England who also worked in The Netherlands. He
has published poems in Ariel Chart, Boyne Berries, Scrittura
Magazine, MonthsToYears, Strands Lit Sphere and The
Dawntreader. He received a Highly Commended in the Francis
Ledwidge Poetry Award 2018. An active member of the Midleton Writers’
Group he now lives by the sea in East Cork.
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