Rainpuddle-splash After Dark

Rain beat on my umbrella
But I barred it out
Flip-flops
hydroplane
and I thunk
into the wee lake
as the rain chortles
victory
as my umbrella, battering-
rammed down,
fills up
a swimming pool for crickets.

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Rabble-rousing wind
Makes a Marilyn Monroe
of every Girl
Throws sneeze powder
up Everyone's nose

Shortly After Rain

Cricket mother screams at their ruined floors
and house
and ceilings
Cricket children scatter
to mend
and avoid
Mother Cricket's rampaging dirge.