Drizzles    Drops…Drip drop   flung off breathless clouds

            when misty travelers wipe grey tired brows

            sweaty fingers       drip drip

            Lick your thundery lips, chops dash

                      over pastures, valleys, drip drop

                      through snowy peaks     still sweat

                      drip drop and huff-huff

Here’s a town    a city    a splat! on asphalt thick

Splat! brick clean    

Sturdy cement so strong    stoic river of stone

                 holds all the earth’s weight

                 in Step by Clip and Stumble or trot

        He takes each tap in stride

        It’s nothing anymore

Ticks from a clock      A days work    tick-tock

      day in, out       shoe step      step step

      tick-tock         day in

A warm one creeps in   that August sun too proud

Solid stone, stoic as ever     bears out scorching summer

                               burning, boiling

                               grim and bear it