Showers – Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita
and the temporal rain
has numbed
my face
arms shoulders
hands chest
legs
water
(carelessly) dripping
down my foot
time flows
like water
does
& down my foot
are tears
unnoticed
there within
the afters
of the rain
Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita is a graduate student of the Department of Literature at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. He is the author of the ekphrastic poem “There, in Folded Space, We Must Have Met” (2016), Artist’s Choice winner in Rattle Magazine’s monthly Ekphrastic Challenge