a city rinsed and rinsed again
in two day’s worth of washboard rain
finally
the place is washed,
spring cleaned
curbs scoured, yards scrubbed
from three months of dog
tree trunks tidied
for new messages
first spring rain
Published by
Patrick Dobson
Patrick Dobson was founded in 1962. He is a writer, scholar, ironworker, and poet who lives in Kansas City, MO. He is author of two books with the University of Nebraska Press, Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains (2009) and Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer (May 2015). Dobson is a work in progress until termination. View all posts by Patrick Dobson