10:05 PM Relief

It’s still raining,
not as hard as it was earlier,
but still plenty hard.
The wind is still cycling,
gust then lull,
on a more subdued scale.
The cadence is roughly the same.
But the intensity is considerably lower.
The effect is more soothing than distressing,

a relief,

like that feeling of feeling better right after you vomit,
or that kind of relief I had,
[described to me]
many years ago,
of finally coming down from a particularly hairy mushroom or acid trip,
waves of relief oscillating through
small, rolling, widely spaced waves,
hill and valleys,
peaks and troughs.
I can feel it.

Relief.