Rain on New Windows (CTG)

[Christopher T. George]

Rain on New Windows

Spring in Baltimore: rain, a full-throated cardinal sings
in the gap between our apartment buildings. The windows
people have visited--father and daughter--and installed
double-paned delights--so clean compared to the paint-
peeled, dusty Twenties sash windows, so chiaroscuro.

My Mom's in a nursing home, 86 years on. Old pics I found
of her: strong, in control, and me the teenager in Beatles'
Liverpool, my grandfather's roses flowering in Mersey rain.
All the deaths that define my days. I see the baroque dome
of the D.C. basilica that delighted you, can no longer share

my thoughts with you. But the rain is falling and the cardinal
in a rain-soaked sycamore is singing spring into a new year.

Christopher T. George

[Hero In The Seaweed]

You can't beat rain in a poem!

Kudos! I liked this one a lot.