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# Weather-Related Joy
**by Lisbeth McCarty**

Beads of rain slide down window glass
Prisms of colors reflecting back 
The afghan made by a distant relative
wraps my body in warmth and clarity

Eventually, the pitter-patter ends
and then, a whole new world begins
I go outside to inhale the freshness
and let a bird’s song leave me breathless