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The ribbed black of the umbrella
is an argument for the existence of God,
that little shelter
we carry with us
and may forget
beside a chair
in a committee meeting
we did not especially want to attend.
What a beautiful word, "umbrella."
A shade to be opened.
Like a bat's wing, scalloped.
It shivers.
A drum head
beaten by the silver sticks
of rain,
and I do not have mine,
and so the rain showers me.
Michael Chitwood
Posted over on the Writer's Almanac
"Here I Am, Lord" by Michael Chitwood, from Poor-Mouth Jubilee
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