READER RESPONSE HAi-2K This week, it's plain, our readers' observations fall mainly on the rain.

WINNERS Mildew prophecy: Stumptown winter, gray and wet Fungus triumphant --D.L. Jordan, North Portland Relentless the rain Runs, drips, streams, then stops--O Sun! Mole people emerge. --Bev Leatherwood, Hillsboro This is not some more Limp haiku about the rain It's about wet socks. --Sean Mann, Southeast Portland

HONORABLE MENTIONS Gray sky all day long. Coffee, books, beer and leaf slime; These are things for rain. --John Lewis, Southeast Portland Rainy day. Willamette Week. Wet umbrella up above Portland to the bone If it rains again Tomorrow I really must Wash my stinky dog --Amy Cody, Lake Oswego The Gardenburger Sitting well with all this beer And it's still raining --Andrew Brubaker, Southeast Portland Weather report: rain. Ugly umbrellas await. Job security. --Gina Purl, Eugene Certainly not dry Portland: a garden with the hose left on too long --Peter Mortola, Southeast Portland Portland's wet chic way: Urban slippery park blocks Down coffee all day --Jason Cody, Lake Oswego The sky is as gray And fluffy as dryer lint From a rain-soaked load. --Lisa Fritsch, Southeast Portland Can the steamy sum Of caramel coffee quaffed sate The sedulous rain? --Zack Sloan, Southeast Portland Sure it rains a lot.But it seems the common plight Makes the people kind. --Mattias Fripp, Southwest Portland

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Willamette Week | originally published January 12, 1999