Rain (March)

Slobbering over rosepetals, the gutter overflow piddles and missiles onto chicken wire too, catching long droplets on hundreds of hexagons. Mazing over treetops, the hilltop downpours collage and switch-swerve over lorikeet lawns too, filtering threaded catchments through thousands of grassblades. Silvering over erosions, the upstream onsets spittle and pimple over mirror water too, lifting moving surfaces above march of freshwater. Pooling over windscreens, the rooftop washdown dribbles and films across shiniest duco too, bearding wet lines along kilometres of macadam. Slooping over crinkle-packets, the township freeze-flow puckers and splesh-splashes over supermarket throwaways too, spreading small billabongs on sheetings of plastic.