Stirring metaphors abound--my favorite is the image of elephants forming a circle to protect their young. The title itself is metaphor--waiting for rain, waiting for disaster, but hoping against hope that the dark clouds will blow over. But rain also gives life, so there is an element of hope in the title, too.
On a personal note, I was once faced with a daughter who needed neonatal intensive care. She survived and is doing well now, but her time in the NICU still haunts me, and the insidious threat that she one day may need intensive care again is always lurking just behind her winning smile.
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