Only the Rain

by Randall Silvis

Gee would probably say you could take it all the way back to that apple in the Garden of Eden if you wanted to. And you would probably have said, Why stop there? Why not take it back to the darkness and the void, back to Genesis verse 1. That’s the place to look for answers, you would say. That’s the place to stand there in the nothingness and scream at the top of your lungs, What the hell were you thinking?