(Flood policies cover damage when water rises from the ground; a wind policy would cover the damage if her windows were blown in and rain filled her apartment).
So on Sunday, after a soaking rain filled the plant's cells with moisture, I cut the yarrow's leafy flower stalks down to 4 inches from 18.
Curator Mark Bills recalled that by the time he arrived, the walls were streaming with damp and heavy rain filled buckets faster than they could be emptied.
At one point, the sound of rain filled the Turbine Hall, the wires suspending the forest of speakers shimmering in accidental mimicry of the deluge.
The rain filled my shoes, and the drops bounced like tiny Ping-Pong balls on the tarmac; each time the road swung around the next curve, it seemed that all of us — the three riders I was chasing, and my motorbike — would go straight off into the abyss.
The rain filled my shoes, and the drops bounced like tiny Ping-Pong balls on the tarmac; each time the road swung around the next curve, it seemed that all of us the three riders I was chasing, and my motorbike would go straight off into the abyss.
By Philip Levine The New Yorker, August 20 , 1984P. 36 Rain filled the streets View Article Philip Levine began contributing poems to the magazine in 1958, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1995 for his collection "The Simple Truth".
