The title of this blog comes from Bob Creeley’s “The Rain,” which I’ve included below. The posts will essentially reflect what I’m reading or watching and occasionally include my reactions to major headlines or developments; there is no grand purpose or theme. My intention is simply to write as regularly as I can.
I Implore you to respond to any post that befuddles, amuses, irritates, or delights you.
The Rain / Bob Creeley
All night the sound had
come back again,
and again falls
this quiet, persistent rain.What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often? Is itthat never the ease,
even the hardness,
of rain falling
will have for mesomething other than this,
something not so insistent -
am I to be locked in this
final uneasiness.Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be, for me, like rain,
the getting outof the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.
Be wet
with a decent happiness.
