The Rainwalkers

 An old man whose black face
shines golden-brown as wet pebbles
under the streetlamp, is walking two mongrel dogs of dis-
proportionate size, in the rain,
in the relaxed early-evening avenue.


The small sleek one wants to stop,
docile to the imploring soul of the trashbasket,
but the young tall curly one
wants to walk on; the glistening sidewalkentices him to arcane happenings.


Increasing rain.
 The old bareheaded man
smiles and grumbles to himself.

The lights change: the avenue's
endless nave echoes notes of
liturgical red.
 He drifts

between his dogs' desires.

The three of them are enveloped -
turning now to go crosstown - in their
sense of each other, of pleasure,
of weather, of corners,
of leisurely tensions between them
and private silence.

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