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Thank You For Asking

by Bruce McRae


“Why is it always raining
in your poems?” someone asked me.
“What’s this thing about night you have?”
their inquisitiveness bordering on wonder.
“Dark this. Dark that. Doesn’t daylight
interest you? Is there no poetry in morning?”
 
I made to reply but was interrupted.
“And there are no stories. No people.
Isn’t poetry meant to save the world?
Are you antisocial or something?”
 
Before I could speak thunder cracked,
night closing in, rain starting to fall.
Over the world came a deathly silence.
 
The storms and stones were telling their stories.

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Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician currently residing on Salt Spring Island BC, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with over 1,400 poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books are ‘The So-Called Sonnets (Silenced Press), ‘An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy’ (Cawing Crow Press) and ‘Like As If” (Pski’s Porch), Hearsay (The Poet’s Haven).