Renting

You are around me always now,
sexy, sultry, sassy and sweet
and I keep pinching myself
because it is such a good thing. 
We rent the house, this little wooden place
in the deep green with the crickets
and it is just the way we like it.
We talk about how lucky we are
even though we don't own it.

Outside, it rains wherever rain forms,
because of clouds and wind and air
that depend ever so gently on each other
It is pouring out.

I have a sore throat, but it is getting better,
so I can let go of it during the day.
Yesterday my throat
was entirely mine.