#1845 - serious rain event

 

1845

6.18

18.i.25

serious rain event

or

hello La Niña

 

the unceasing and onslaught thereof

all the parts of day involved

 

well up over what was a road

 

bucket under drip

brief pause

and then there’s more

 

till every river overbanks

 

till time’s awash with roar

 

watch grass rise, go under

hopes wash away

 

it’s all afloat

or all aboard

 

you might think we wished it upon ourselves

but the head can’t soak this up

how now all bodies are water

 

it’s the come again rain

and never left

 

it doesn’t really stop

 

the existential rain –

was raining, it was and it will

 

what bird dares raise a voice against?

 

who’ll set out, galoshes?

 

wet socks therein

meant to fix that hole

 

thanks not to be at sea

thanks not to be in a leaking tent tonight

 

can’t beat ’em join ’em

run a bath

by thunder

not as fast as the tank spills

 

we’re only made of mist

 

so an almost sun says

sky’s just about open for business again

 

just when you think

but no