Love Song

Rain smell comes with the wind
                                                 out of the southwest.

Smell of sand dunes
                               tall grass glistening
                                                             in the rain.

Warm raindrops that fall easy
                                              (this woman)

The summer is born.
Smell of her breathing new life
                                                 small gray toads on
     damp sand.

(this woman)
                     whispering to dark wide leaves
	             white moon blossoms dripping
	                                                             tracks in the
   sand.

Rain smell
                   I am full of hunger
                   deep and longing to touch
wet tall grass, green and strong beneath.

This woman loved a man
and she breathed to him
                                       her damp earth song.

I am haunted by this story
I remember it in cottonwood leaves
                                                       their fragrance in
   the shade.

I remember it in the wide blue sky
when the rain smell comes with the wind.