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Exchanging Rain

by Caroline Knickmeier


​​I was groundwater and you were a constant current
of joy and tears and moisture from your breath
became part of the clouds since you passed
but all water is reused and your tears became mine and I slowly release you every time I cry

I'll greet you on mountain lakes
swift moving rivers fresh drinkable spring
in brief showers
that form rainbows
that wouldn't be possible without the moisture passed through you
since you've left behind
 
I’ll breathe in ocean salty air greet you once again
that which was once your tears
 
as continued life ebbs and flows
form endless color prisms through the changing sky

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Caroline S. Knickmeier is a literary and visual artist. Her work promotes positive change amid difficult circumstance. She exhibits widely and is published in the Yahara Journal, F-Stop Magazine, The Voices Project, LED Publishing, Thought Notebook Journal, The Artist Unleashed, and is forthcoming in Apeiron Review, among others. Check out her website here.
Photo used under Creative Commons from Rum Bucolic Ape
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