Rainy Pavements

Rainy Pavements

by Betsy McKenzie

What is it
About water and light?
Like fond sisters,
They enlarge, embolden each other.

Points of light,
Brushed across the wet street,
Into long, moving stripes:
White, green, red and yellow.

Rivers of light
Transforming
The rainy street.

December 3, 2006
Photograph by Sara Lovering, http://www.saralovering.com/gallery/2003/11/chicago_night_t_1.php, of a Chicago street on a rainy night.