by Gerburg Garmann

Go meet them on
the square where –
That’s the magic of
the briefest moment when –
Such small feet
play the rain to –
There is something about
the rain.  Some pearls.
Some square innocence.
Then some more.
By threading drop
after drop after –
people could get at least
as far as the wet bird on
the next-door neighbor’s wire.

Gerburg Garmann, a native of Germany, is a professor of German and French at the University of Indianapolis. Her scholarly publications have appeared in both German and French in international journals, and her poems have been featured in various magazines and anthologies around the world, including The Adirondack Review, Dichtungsring, gangway, Die Gazette, Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, In Posse Review, In ein anderes Blau, and Lyrikwelt. A strong believer in interdisciplinary artistic endeavors, she is also a painter concentrating on Abstract Expressionism. Gerburg Garmann has had solo exhibitions, and has participated in national group exhibitions. She also received a commendation from the British art magazine Aesthetica for her poem “Eliza’s Bird.” Her paintings are collected locally and internationally.
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