Rain Song

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I enjoyed this as lot, it has a nice flow to it! I liked the comparison you chose between a person coming into your life like the weather, so especially the line of "weather isn't anyone's choice" spoke to me, as well as "pretty words come easy". Your description of him dropping the watch on the nightstand was interestingly also something that caught my eye. I'm mentioning this because I wonder if you also thought much of it when you wrote it? It's a little gesture that I remember seeing from time to time that I haven't seen get mentioned in poems. So for me it really helped the poem come alive in a way.

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I like it. All things come to personal taste; but because the word "like" oversaturates normal spoken language, I'd suggest removing "like" as a comparitive word.

For example: "He moved like smooth water," You could improve the cadence to the line and remove "like" with "He moved as smooth as water, and tasted of cerulean sunlight"

I enjoy all your other uses of metaphor, it just flows into it without pausing to announce itself as a simile.

RAIN SONG

I'd a feeling he was coming,/ the way some can smell the rain./ Just moments before the bottom falls out,/ you're counting on drops down the pane.//

Sugar cone high, sidewalk kisses, his/ mint chip melting across fingers.//

Watch hands ticking,/ as he lay it atop the nightstand/

• like a heart bartering for time.//

At first trickle of his voice,/ with one palm upon the stomach/ and aquarian eyes, i learn/ such weather isn't anybody's choice.//

He moved smooth as water/ tastes, like cerulean starlight.//

Had me, all night,/ dreaming that raining/ was a kind of healing ... //

and I swore/ that was right.//

When pretty words can come so easily,/ he knows what's done is done.//

Dawn always breaks./ But, the gloom of June is gone./ as I lie and burn with the sun.//