Cityscape in Rain, by Taunja Thomson

I Will Love and Have No Fear, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada). 2014.

Cityscape in Rain

Four-part cityscape--
rain     fog     silhouette     fire

Rain slashes air
pavement glimmers with streaks
and drops     each a prism
holding arcs of colours
that quiver on the edge
of breaking

Fog dominates distance
a line beyond which buildings 
do not exist and mountains
may have moved in
or parking lots cracked
and fell away
unheard

Silhouettes pierce mist
and shush of dampness
striding     turning     standing
they pulsate to random
rhythms only skin hears
until they become lines
of kanji 

Fire ripens rain and fog and silhouettes
a faint sun pushing through the distant 
expanse spreading a creamsicle sheen
into the moist air     throughout puddles
casting a deeper orange
onto the black figures
waking and warming them
with ropes of gold
that snake through
cityscape    gleaming.

Taunja Thomson

Taunja Thomson’s poetry has most recently appeared in Claudius Speaks and Pink Panther Magazine.  Three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards: “Seahorse and Moon” in 2005, “I Walked Out in January” in 2016, and “Strum and Lull” in 2018.  She has co-authored a chapbook of ekphrastic poetry entitled Frame and Mount the Sky that was published in 2017, and her chapbook Strum and Lull placed as a semi-finalist in Golden Walkman’s chapbook competition (2017).  She has a writer’s page athttps://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter.