Rain Woman

by Rick K. Reut

Image credit: Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash

…around her. Today,

there’s no rain yet.

But everything’s wet

enough to stay

hopeful that some-

how it will come

back to the rain

woman who wants

to break all the walls

(of fear and pain),

which still remain…

…around her. Today, there’s no rain yet. But

everything’s wet enough to stay hopeful that

somehow it will come back to the rain woman

who wants to break all the walls (of fear and

pain), which still remain…

The piece is dedicated to Natalia Antonevich, aka Антоневич Наталья Георгиевна.

It is an example of what the author calls cyclic verse, which presupposes a poem having no beginning or end and working in both rhyme and prose.

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Rick K. Reut

Rick K. Reut was born in 1984. He studied philosophy at EHU in Minsk, Belarus, and Vilnius, Lithuania, and literature at SPSU in Saint Petersburg, Russia. For most of his life after graduation, he has worked as a translator and a tutor of English as a foreign language.