Seoul, Rainy Evening

Thanks to Todd Diemer at Unsplash for an extraordinary photo

By day, it is thirty-five, a stain on shirt and skin.

But sometimes sundown brings showers

And the breeze turns off the fan.

Not risking a run over the puddles

Shiny in the reluctant streetlights,

I watch Seoul to feel the winter cold

Trickle through the screen with a score

Like Newman and Poitier in Paris Blues.