Learning about Rain

by Bill Freedman

In the title poem, a spider, its web bombarded by rain, thinks fly, feast, continuity, only to find, when she scuttles out...the rain. The question a number of these poems address is: how might she, or two-legged arachnids, respond to such assaults on hope or trust. Not much help from this spider: "She knows she will leave...no message./ The young she thought to gorge/ with all this wealth/ will have to learn, in their own time, / about the rain."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942371993
• ISBN13: 9781942371991
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Futurecycle Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"