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© by Kate Gale

The storm drain
Language: English 
Liquid canopy descending sky
It’s dark inside the storm drain but you took me here.
Tongue slow lips open hands lightly under.

When I’m eighty no one will crawl with me
in a storm drain to hold my breasts
while the sky is falling.

I lean into corrugated metal. Rust.
Age. Wet. My back into all that.

Text Authorship:

  • by Kate Gale , "The storm drain", appears in Echo Light, Red Mountain Press, first published 2014, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Mark Abel (b. 1948), "The storm drain" [voice and piano], from The Palm Trees are Restless. Five Poems of Kate Gale, no. 1, Oceangoing Music (ASCAP) [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Mark Abel

This text was added to the website: 2016-04-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 57

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