You’d hardly believe that there is any more water in the sky to fall on us, but there is… it’s raining again.
Oh well, here is a poem I found which is a little more romantic; I wish I had found it when I was teaching because there is so much I could have done with it and so much the students could have learned from it. It would have been a terrific stimulus for them. I was thrilled to find a video of Don reading the poem, wonderful, wonderful!
Rain by Don Paterson I love all films that start with rain: rain, braiding a windowpane or darkening a hung-out dress or streaming down her upturned face; one big thundering downpour right through the empty script and score before the act, before the blame, before the lens pulls through the frame to where the woman sits alone beside a silent telephone or the dress lies ruined on the grass or the girl walks off the overpass, and all things flow out from that source along their fatal watercourse. However bad or overlong such a film can do no wrong, so when his native twang shows through or when the boom dips into view or when her speech starts to betray its adaptation from the play, I think to when we opened cold on a starlit gutter, running gold with the neon drugstore sign and I'd read into its blazing line: forget the ink, the milk, the blood— all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain's own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters. |
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Lois Elsden 
It was snowing most of the day here in Yorkshire – the first of the year.
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Do you like the snow, or is it a nuisance to you?
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Snow in Berlin again too.
I enjoyed the poem, such beautiful metaphores: “rain, braiding a windowpane” and “a starlit gutter, running gold”
Funny how he can effortlessly gets away with writing about pop culture, bloopers and authenticity without the poem sounding flippant, but that’s the poignant power of rain I suppose.
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Thank you.. he’s a new poet to me but someone I shall follow! I hope it’s nice crisp snow and bright blue skies!
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