After the Rain

 "I think the world should be full of cats and rain....." 
      -Charles Bukowski (Betting on the Muse, Poems and Stories)

 One of my favourite poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)

 The rain has ceased.....

 and in my room

 The sunshine pours an airy flood:

 And on the church's dizzy vane

 The ancient cross....

 is bathed in blood.

 From out the dripping ivy leaves,

 Antiquely carven....

 Grey and high.

 A dormer, facing westward, 

 Looks upon the village like an eye.

 And now it glimmers in the sun,

 A globe of gold, a disk a speck

 And in the belfry sits a dove with purple ripples on her neck.

 "After the Rain" by Thomas Aldrich from " 1000 Beautiful Things. 1948"

Photographs 2018