She sat in an old green lawn chair
scratchy plastic on the porch
just out of reach of the silent gray rain.

Then there was the paper
blue-lined and white
with that red line for the left margin
grade school stuff.

Watching the misty fine rain
pondering its loveliness
forgetting her homework assignment
in the mottled black-and-white notebook,

She took pen to blue lines.
And
Wrote
Her
First
Poem.

(My first poem was Rain)

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