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 SamaritaRommel 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

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