<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me</div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Last night</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">the rain</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">spoke to me</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">slowly, saying, </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">what joy</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">to come falling</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">out of the brisk cloud, </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">to be happy again</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">in a new way</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">on the earth! </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">That’s what it said</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">as it dropped, </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">smelling of iron, </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and vanished</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">like a dream of the ocean</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">into the branches</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and the grass below.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Then it was over.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The sky cleared.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">I was standing</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">under a tree.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The tree was a tree</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">with happy leaves, </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and I was myself, </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and there were stars in the sky</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">that were also themselves</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">at the moment</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">at which moment</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">my right hand</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">was holding my left hand</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">which was holding the tree</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">which was filled with stars</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and the soft rain –</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">imagine! imagine! </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">the long and wondrous journeys</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">still to be ours. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Mary Oliver </div></body></html>