Summer Rain

Dark clouds against the mountain

brilliant lightning

thunder shakes the earth

reverberates through marrow of our bones.

warm summer rain pours down the morning hours.

Small wildflowers, pink with black stripes,

expand toward heaven

renewed by moisture, with new color.

Small hummingbirds, iridescently wet,

express gratitude in quick, humming flight.

Their brilliant, changing colors

feed on renewed nectar.

We sing in summer gratitude.

Our hair streams wet.

We dance spinning on spinning wet earth,

our colors renewed .

We feast our senses on wet wild life everywhere around us.

We are moistly renewed, wet with gratitude.

We slap dance our bare feet on summer mud.

All our colors wash clean in summer rain.