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On A Wet Afternoon

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Our PoW this week is Artie who has
suggested prompt lines for our poem.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

“my delicious walk in the rain”
“what it is that music is trying to say”

Central Park, NY, in the rain
© Etsy

Wet afternoon.
Soil turning itself
over.
I walked until I stopped
and sat upon the empty bench…
just me,
just rain,
just that.

Then music did the same thing…
a cello phrase that stopped
just short of meaning,
hung there
in the afternoon
like rain-smell,
like soil,
like something…. turning.

This is what the world does
when it wants to speak…
it rains, it plays a cello phrase,
it turns the soil over slowly
for the ones who are listening,
just that,
just this,
that’s it.

NAR©2026
#W3

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33 thoughts on “On A Wet Afternoon”

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  4. What a beautiful poem, Nancy. ‘ This is what the world does
    when it wants to speak…
    it rains, it plays a cello phrase,
    it turns the soil over slowly
    for the ones who are listening,” So true. Lovely.

    Congrats on being chosen POW.

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  12. I loved your delicate rain poem, and it rained all afternoon when I was the football yesterday, another excuse to stay inside behind the glass windows and have few more glasses of beer my friend … 🥰🍻

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