Friday, April 4, 2014

Water


Water
Damages
Everything

The island
Shaped
Like a scythe
Makes no good levee
Here

Winter ivy is eaten
By skunk cabbage
And fiddleheads
Monstrous
In their time

Alien to earth
Water puts out
Fire in spring

Underneath
Shifts the ground

At last
Years flood














Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

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