Saturday, January 11, 2020
Raindrops
RAINDROPS
Can raindrops wash away the sin
The tracks of places you have been
The tears of people that you knew
The trace of faces that were you?
Or does it just provide the background
To your heart's repeating sound
The beating drumbeat at your core
Scarce remembered anymore?
The revelation of your pain
Only recognized in rain
Glimpsed in silhouetted haze
On such drizzly, misty days...
Troy D. Smith, 1-11-2020
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently teaching history at Tennessee Tech.
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