RAIN PORTAL
Awash in rain.
Transfixed.
Amorphous absorption
Of time and place.
A scent only.
Fleeting.
Pine?
Hemlock?
But not here.
Not now.
Not this foreign place.
The pool.
The hotel.
Markers only,
In a trail of mist
That takes one
Where it will.
Author’s Bio
Francis Flavin draws upon his experience as an educator, hockey player, public interest lawyer and adventurer on four continents. His work has received recognition in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, the Chicagoland Poetry Contest, the Working People’s Poetry Competition and the 2020 Writer’s Digest awards.