Breakdancing Rain

Clattering on rooftop
all hurly-burly & counterpoint
a pitter-patter of splash
overflowing gutters & spouts
like liquid rebel,
undaunted by pale constraints
of time or rhythm, laughing to
fickle swells of storm und drang,
slave to mercurial downpour,
scatting the happy jazz
of strange time signature
then splishing, sploshing,
in lockstep buoyance
as though performing
for small street corner crowd.

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Gary Glauber has two collections, Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) and Worth the Candle (Five Oaks Press) and a chapbook Memory Marries Desire (Finishing Line Press). His poetry has appeared in numerous places, including Cultural Weekly, Sheila-Na-Gig, Ariel Chart, New Verse News, Tuck Magazine, and The Paddock Review. He has an MFA in playwriting from Carnegie-Mellon University.