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Ionic

How a little Mancunian rain can clear the streets

Richard Partridge

Oct 4, 2022

In between the Ionics
of the Manchester Art Gallery,
a sudden downpour pools people

around us.

We watch the umbrella-ed and ambivalent
be precipitated upon beyond,
bringing a thunderous sense of exquisite calm.