Whenever I return
to the place I was born,
it rains. The stone lot
where the trailer was parked
floods. To my sister:
I never ratted on you,
and I never would.
No matter how hard it rains
I’ll wait for you and
together we will drown.
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Rodger LeGrand is a Pushcart nominated poet and the author of several collections of poetry, including "Studies for a Self-Portrait" (Big Table 2019). His poems have appeared in many literary journals. He has taught at MIT and Penn. Currently he designs humanitarian education courses for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.