Outside the Window

Rainy Sunday.

The sky is the same

tone of gray it has been

almost every  day

for a month.

Faded lilacs

across the way

do little

to contrast the

oppressive dreariness.

I wish

that the kids

had been out

yesterday

creating graffiti

with their chalk

so that we could
today have seen

a river of many colors

bleeding

    down

        the

           street. - Jeff Barnes