Precipitation

Prompt: Falling from the sky


When the water starts falling from the sky
she opens her mouth to drink.
Crowds around her continue to move
but she does not hesitate to collect as much of the world as possible.
Only so much directly enters her body:
drops collect in her hair, glistening,
soak into her clothes,
the corners of her notebooks curl, excited.
No one could take it all in at once
and she knows this,
raising her body upwards
drinking in the sky.

March 11