Rachel Small

Bayview Station

I appreciate the rain. Some days it takes hours to come,
a slow pulse from the base of the skull. An echo on
the horizon. I have a habit of expecting to see water
when I look out the window, crossed instead by the
beginning scar of a project. Land taken to by a razor,
barbed wire mouth grinning at dry skies. All high
rises come with a beginning. The rain will come in a
day or two. All times come with a beginning. We gave
up the ocean and the river to carve out a patch of
new earth. We gave up it all, in case of rain.

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Rachel Small is a writer based outside of Ottawa. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines including blood orange, Anti-Heroin Chic, Thorn Literary Magazine, the winnow magazine, Ample Remains and Northern Otter Press. Her upcoming mini chapbook will be published with Whispering Wick Press. You can find her on Twitter @rahel_taller.