One Drop
We scan the sagging sky
The curdled clouds, heavy
And sodden as sandbags
That no longer stem the tide
Hunching homeward against
The storm, faces stung
We feared the urgent rain
Would never stop, and longed
For sun
Now, in rinsed air
This one bewitching moment
Of a single raindrop
One Drop
A sphere
Of light and dark, sky and shadow
Suspended on a summer leaf
And fragile
As a planet