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At college, we were fans of the rain test—

He thought that if you ran quickly through a downpour

you would get less wet

than someone walking. We ran it often skittering

from the greenhouse to the concert hall of glass and dark woods

and through a back stairway to the library

where I would get one record at a time.

Early music or Joni Mitchell, in the dark, while

my fighting roommates slept, and the water ran down

every lizard tree trunk outside.