In the Glance of the Rain by Finn Hobart - Poetry Writing Competition 2025 1st Place

The rain falls

And the trees gasp

And their leaves cascade

Around the feet of a boy, whose trembling hand

Is reaching out for the first time to meet the autumn land.

Everything comes to pass,

And the rain falls

And the rivers breathe

And their banks swell

Over the boys wizened feet, who bore him over sky-sung hills

And into valleys where herons lent him the secret languages from their bills,

Which now he offers back to the long rain

In exchange for having lived.