Rain Washed

What a joy to walk outside on the day after a rain.

With everything so shiny bright and all washed fresh and clean.

The flicker and the blue jay, chirp and peck with beaks

The land yields forth so easily the worms they seek.

The hummingbirds find food in the bathed petunia bloom.

The chickadees flit happily among the fallen limbs.

The breeze that blows wafts the pungent earth's aroma:

Damp dirt

Wet bark

Soaked oaks

Soggy cedars

Rushing rivers

Flooded fields

Sodden sand

Dripping rooftops

Darkened deck

Saturated hillsides

Piquant pines

Gleaming grasses

Puddled pavement

Steaming pathways

Smoking chimneys

Misty manzanitas

Muddy landscape

Slippery slides

Sparkling cars

and

Shining pyracanthas

Our senses are revived.

All has been renewed ~ Everything washed clean.

All has been refreshed.

Even me.