THE COMING RAIN

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Hardly on a high alert

We wait for coming rain….

Weather radar says the Berkshires*

Are first to feel same.

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Expected after midnight

Here in Central “Mass.”

Could be an inch or more

Or less watering the grass.

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Then it will be hot and sunny

In time for the Fourth of July…

Our fine nation’s Birthday,

Before a lot of young men died.

–Jonathan Caswell

* the Berkshires..mountain rage in Western Massachusetts….part of the Appalachian range (called Taconic in New York State, just across the state border)