Duxbury High School - Partridge Yearbook (Duxbury, MA)

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Partridge 1972 Duxbury High School Duxbury, Massachussetts Duxbury Free Library

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Celebration For A Gray Day Be quiet now and still. Be unafraid. That hiss and garden tinkle is the rain, That face you saw breathe on the windowpane Was just a startled cat with eyes of jade- Cats worry in the rain, you know, and are afraid. The nervous laugh that creeps into our room Is throated in a voice beyond the door. We hear it once and then no more, A distant echo tumbling from its loom. Our time is measured in another room. We know days pass away because we're told. We lie alone and sense the reeling earth. You whisper in my ear it has some worth And I lean near to keep you from the cold. There are so many things that must be told. I speak of lost regimes and distant times, And moon- eyed children swirling in the womb, And legless beggars prophesying doom, And afternoons of rain spun into rhyme. The patter of the rainfall marks our time. As does the waning moon. Or muted sun. As do the nodding gods who ride the sea, For even now, alone, and still with me, You sense the bonds that cannot be undone: Our pulse is in the rain and moon and sun, We take our breaths together and are one. 3