Sunshower

Raining on just one half of the city
or only one side of the road with
clear blue skies and sun seen shining
down upon the other, in the South
we say it's due to devil beating his poor
suffering wife. In other parts so far afield
there's much less talk of Lucifer and more
of animals although some call it ghost rain
or an orphan's tears or witches taking breaks
to brush their hair. The monkey's getting married,
or a wolf will welcome wedded bliss or similar
to this,a fox or jackal join in sacred binding
to another of its kind or to a crow or she-wolf.
Hyenas may be giving birth, or deer, but here we
say the devil and his wife are having
problems, which if you think about it makes
more sense than mammals mating. Why
would a leopard's leap to love affect the
weather? But when you think about it,
if the devil's got a wife, doesn't it seem
safe to say that, likely, she's unhappy?


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013


An uneven poem, perhaps, just like today's weather.