it will rain tonight

I know it will rain
when air touches my skin
like an infant breath of ice.
Enter the breeze. We don’t say please.
We open wide. I am a writer of
hidden pond dreams.
I burned all my other hats. I slipped out
of my daily ghost wandering.
I am a woman soaking. Book. Bath.
At night, I hear the neighbor’s cat
being pounded. I sound exactly
like that.

-tinya, from May All the Lovers Summon Rain