Sol 6.1

  1. He spent the spring at the pools of al-Ranqaʾ, until

    he and they shed their winter coats,

  2. and the noonday heats drained every rainwater pool

    from the hard uplands and the soft, sandy flats,

  3. on the morning of the fifth-day watering, while a scorching wind raged,

    as though its fierce heat were the glow of a fire.

  4. Its low clouds dense and dark, its kidney-shaped cloud-masses streaming,

    its thunder crashing, its buckets brimming.

Sol 6.1