The Rain That Falls Here
Alberto Rios
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The rain that falls here is lost,
Having meant surely to fall somewhere else,
Somewhere that’s already green.
 About Alberto Rios Alberto Ríos is a Regents' Professor and the Katharine C. Turner Endowed Chair in English at Arizona State University. He is the author of three collections of short stories, a memoir, and nine books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently, The Theater of Night (Copper Canyon, 2006) and The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (Copper Canyon, 2002), a finalist for the National Book Award. Also In VQR |
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