Umbrella Shadowed Fog

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Umbrella Shadowed Fog

Fog is a folded shadow cast on a concrete wall

Dim lights fall to the dirty pavement drains

As rain sweeps up around the gutter rims

Along the open cracks a mist fills in

In currents rippled, diamond tumbled days

To the streets as steaming sheets of white

Streams gather into water falls they carry off

Thin channels form umbrella shadows black

Mimic life, silhouette solid images of passers-by

In puddles muddied at a time designated by the weather

Prevailing conditions as predicted become a ripple

A wrinkle as a shield deploys

Informed by such knowledge born before the storm

Precipitation bounces over plastic sheets of linen

Stretched to their limits, thoughts, images

Roll over a framework of skeletal remains

Metal on plastic for their protection

Dancing down about their feet are rubber boots

Fog creates a film, a mist, a cloud on glass

A gestured finger, invisibly smooth to its touch

Rolls over wet forget-me-nots as surface tension

Prints a name remembered only by the window

Separates smoke from mirror

In a single stroke it disappears

Imagine that

Tributaries run randomly, continue to the river

Streams rush with white, clear as diamonds bright

The sun is blotted out by gray meanderings

Gathered false images shimmer in the mud

As they become the puddles

Rain separates, splits into currents

Channels water falls into the ocean

Cascading over umbrellas folded up

And over linen as is there luck

Streets receive so much information

Feet still get wet beneath umbrellas progress

Before the flood comes in to drown the innocent