210

Day 210 of the 365 day poem challenge.

Deglutition meaning "the action or process of swallowing."

Rainy Day

Do you hear it trickle like a hydrant

Gushing and gushing 

They are scurrying like rats

Forced down gangways, footpaths, fortresses of construction and industry and into slew ways 

Mewling trampling 

The bolts of water smack their faces like curry 

Their pink swollen heads having difficulty with deglutition 

This wet shiny world 

The cracked asphalt, the broken paths, the eternal dirt and pebble, the dominance of the microbe and dust  

The trains rumbles their frames 

The trains shake and shatter 

The foundations tremble, yet somehow hold fast 

The carriages away and shake like the sense of the commuters 

Like a pendulum begging to end

Can you hear the trickle like a hydrant gushing

The sound of thousands of soggy feet.