rain, n. 1. The commute's only honest language. 2. A diagonal script the windshield tries and fails to read. 3. The thing that makes 9:47 a.m. feel like early evening. 4. What the one-year-old calls "dat" while pressing her palm flat against the window, leaving a small star of heat on the glass. 5. The sound a day makes when it hasn't decided what it wants to be yet.