In Praise of Rain

I saw 
a photograph
of animals praising
the rain that finally
fell on their nearly
scorched backs— they
raised up themselves
on their hind legs
& their fore-
legs made a kind
of tent above
their heads &
no one saw
where they went
afterwards but
after the fire they
left hoof prints
in the clay

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