Kelly R Samuels

Planets

Northamptonshire: extremely localized rain, falling on one field but not
another

It falls in this way, as if like.

Twelve minutes from where you are, where I am, where
I’ll leave from—heading back to where the birch I planted
has gone haywire.

I’ve said it seems as if the interstate serves as border, companion
to the weather front. 

Once we crawled for a mile along that road, hunched
forward, using all of our vision—

suddenly came into
what appeared brighter for the contrast.

Once we stood watching it rain in our front yard,
sun ablaze in the back, and wondered at distance.

Kept turning to see. Then, turning.

The cheap telescope gave us nothing
that could be identified, called known. 

What we searched for, too far.

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Kelly R Samuels is the author of the full-length collection All the Time in the World (Kelsay Books) and two chapbooks: Words Some of Us Rarely Use and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with work appearing in The Massachusetts Review, Court Green, MAYDAY, Opt West and RHINO. She lives in the Upper Midwest.