The Manyness of Rain

A salutary reminder from the rain
Drops—the world is staggeringly multiple.

You can give a number to them, model them,
But nobody actually counts drops of rain,

Not the ones in the puddles under the cliffs,
Not the ones running down your car’s cracked windshield,

Not the thin lines like translucent Mandarin
Verses on weather, not the ones on your skin.