As you drive us to see Courtney Barnett in the driving rain

For Simon 

In another life we might have stopped at a point where the road widened

jumped out blessed whomever for our crops and the good that it would do 

danced a wild goodbye to the drought until our shirts were soaked

but instead we waved our fists behind the safety of your wipers  

until we found a small but significant role for water to play in this

but as we weaved ourselves north we came to see a weakness in it

and we began to wonder how it would handle our growing spirit 

and what it would do if it felt what we felt when we arrived

when the smooth heat of her electric guitar slid down our throats

and saw to it that rain was just there to cool our little patch of earth.