Happy April — and may you all continue to self-isolate, wash your hands, and stay healthy to enjoy the April showers and the May flowers. Words by Langston Hughes. Photo by me.
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Man 
Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling
out of the brisk cloud,
to be happy again
in a new way
on the earth!
That’s what it said
as it dropped,
smelling of iron,
and vanished
like a dream of the ocean
into the branches
and the grass below.
Then it was over.
The sky cleared.
I was standing
under a tree.
The tree was a tree
with happy leaves,
and I was myself,
and there were stars in the sky
that were also themselves
at the moment
at which moment
my right hand
was holding my left hand
which was holding the tree
which was filled with stars
and the soft rain —
imagine! imagine!
the long and wondrous journeys
still to be ours.
-Mary Oliver
Hello PD. Thank you for sharing these beautiful words — I’m responding to you with tears in my eyes.
💕