Glass: A Journal of Poetry Volume Four Issue Two     

 

Antonia Clark

The Antonym of Rain

There are no entries
for the antonym of rain.
 

More than mere aridity:
a gentle ascending

what rises from the bodies
of the dead, what nearly

undoes us, but keeps us
from becoming undone

restoring dust to our windows
haze to the cleansed air

a necessary condition
between sorrow and relief.