Petrichor: (noun) a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.


rainy season in my heart.
brings tangled, draping nets of greenery - succulent and saturated - 
bowing at the weight of their dripping tendrils,
silent like the thick of a jungle canopy
waiting for the primordial buzz of the insect choir to build to a crescendo.

rainy season in my heart
makes rivulets down mountainsides,
tosses drab-colored swallows in lonely gusts of wind,
drenches the hollow, sighing valley in endless curtains of rain,
and in the yellowed evening, evaporates mist from broad, tired fronds.

rainy season in my heart.
sends me hiding behind curtains,
while moss grows thick on my veins,
and the forest menagerie emerge slowly from their shelters
to collect water from the swollen womb of green earth.

rainy season in my heart.
and I am constantly drenched in mist,
precipitation dripping from my temples, my nose, my eyelashes,
the scent of fresh, wet soil trailing after me,
damp leaves plastered to my wrists and wrapped in my hair,
puddles in my eyes.

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