Continuous sounds [I]

start collecting continuous sounds: the rain.
there’s rain like the sounds of the rain
____on roofing
like the sound the rain on this thatch

or the sounds of the rain on tiles and on metal
and the sound of the rain running
off eaves and pouring through drainpipes

___(or when rain falls on lawns
___or on cold earth
___or in puddles and ponds and
___in ditches)

all the different sounds of the rain
and the sound of the rain on different days
like the sounds of the drizzles and downpours
___when tar
___slow drops
___will linger

and the memory of rain on different days
___this said,
rain is to oceans and great bodies of water
as ashes are to flesh

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