
Refusal
Saturated she
just refuses to let more
in. Flash floods must rage.
x
Swallowed whole
Flash floods swallow whole
the bridge. Saturated earth’s
blatant refusal.
x
These are the latest two poems in my water series. Two haikus wrestling with the same moment, but each one capturing something different. I worked on these over the weekend while visiting my brother. The boys were so struck by the fury, suddenness, and relentlessness of the flooding. Sammy was really amused by it. He loves things which are doing something they are not supposed to…

I can relate to Sammy’s amusement of things doing what they are not supposed to!