Layers and Layers

open sky
heavens weep
curtains of rain
random drops
on stones
where time began
welcoming wet
slipping into soil
recovery
feeding layers
to roots
webs of connections
underneath
warming
pushing up
forever growth

Dr. Roger Singer is the Poet Laureate of Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has had over 1,000 poems published on the internet, magazines, and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. He is also the President of the Shoreline Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society.