PANOPLY

A simple—but effective 

smudge

of shadow-black 

crescents bobbing

up 

and down in soft

unison

parade formation—receding 

there

against the warmish

bulging

grey of city streetwash 

and sky

so gently 

clotted-over—

charmingly

ameliorates—or even better

the latest pelting 

shock—

of dark hard April rain.