aspects of rain

P. Cardy

sh!

listen!

silvery splatter shimmering patter

splashing and cascading

shower

murmuring gurgling

babbling gaggling

spurting and spattering

spitting and splattering

squirtingly scuttering swampily sputtering

tinglingly twinkling distillingly sprinkling

mizzling drizzling

stream

dribbling dropping

piddling and plopping

sloppily slobbering and sloshingly showering

churningly effluent

ooze

slippering flippering

slushy and succulent

trickling gargling

juicy liquescent

rippling and roaring

spouting and pouring

aqueous reeking

aquaticly steeping

and

flashingly plashingly slashingly thrashingly crashingly smashingly

damp

flooding and flowing and floating and fluid

sodden and seething and soppy and sous'd

wringing and watery and muggy and moist

drenching and dripping and dabbled and dous'd

pluvially percolated

soakingly saturated

wringingly inundated

muddily macerated

boggy and spongy and quaggy and rank

and marshy and dewy and squashy and dank

and

gushily slushily

and

gurgingly surgingly

rushingly flushingly

brimmingly swimmingly

spillingly and thrillingly and chillingly and fillingly and wonderf'ly willingly

wet!