it never rains in the bars.
Sympathetic Magic
aka
Rain Stick Magic
“Rain, we need rain.”
The bruja whirls her rain stick.
Rain drops patter one by one,
then fall faster and faster
until her bamboo sky fills
with the sound of rushing water.
An autumnal whirl of sun-dried cactus
beats against its wooden prison walls.
Heavenwards, zopilotes float
beneath gathering clouds.
Rain falls in a wisdom of pearls
cast now before us.
Scales fall from my eyes.
They land on the marimbas,
dry beneath the zocalo‘s arches
where wild music sounds
its half-tame rhythms,
sympathetic music released,
like this rainstorm,
by the musician’s magic hands.
Comment: Bruja: witch, witch doctor; Oro de Oaxaca: mescal, the good stuff; Zopilote: Trickster, the turkey vulture who steals fire from the gods, omnipresent in Oaxaca; Marimbas: a tuned set of bamboo instruments. But you knew all that!
rogermoorepoet 
I loved this one also, Roger, cheers!😊
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The rewrite changes it, from third to first person. I have ‘lived with’ Baudelaire for a long time
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A great poem Roger! I love this line…. Rain falls in a wisdom of pearls
cast now before us.
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Thank you! Just when I thought nobody was paying attention to my blog. I needed that! Snowing outside. Nice and dry inside. Eau Canada!!
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You are welcome! You will have to come south. Roger. It is unseasonably warm here in NC. 74 F through Saturday! Feels great.
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I have friends in NC, though I have never been there. I worked the university circuits mainly, lecturing and teaching workshops. Loved what I saw of the States.
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I enjoy everything about NC except the very hot summers!
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Heat doesn’t worry me too much. I spent my summers in Spain as a kid and taught in Oaxaca during my vacations! That was all dry heat, though. Hot and humid doesn’t thrill me.
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:>)
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When I try to click back to your site it says not available. Maybe your site is not working and you are missing viewers!
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Could be. All my IT seems fickle at times and I am no expert.
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:>)
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