Rain Rain Rain
by and published in Edition Nine of Pomegranate
The day is new, gusty
and damp. Still, I can’t
help but want
rain rain rain
to wash it all away
again – a flash-flood
of arcing bird-song
back into the dark. I’d ride
a river of sleep, soaked
in the destruction, feel
pleasant and clean – hair
flat to the skin
with eyes closing. There
would be cars floating
and household objects
everywhere, and mud.
Benjamin Burns
Benjamin Burns is a 19 year old Music Technology and Anthropology student at NUI Maynooth. He enjoys reading, writing, listening, composing, thinking and watching, (amongst other unmentionable things). He was runner-up in the Sean Dunne Young Writer of the Year Award 2007, staged his surreal comedy sketch show Vegetable Universe in Maynooth last year, and recently released his Stem the Sky EP on Cinoci Records under the name Pandy Corporation (Pandy being his alter-ego and beloved Teddy Bear).