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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Sylvia Plath
Summer, Rain, Fall
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.124, Anchor

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.

Sylvia Plath
Rain, Writing, August
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

I woke to the sound of rain.

Sylvia Plath
Rain, Sound, Sound Of Rain
Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.44, Hamilton Books

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

Sylvia Plath
Rain, Loss, Salt
Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.124, Faber & Faber

God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

Sylvia Plath
Suicide, Morning, Rain
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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