After the Floods
(2004 BC & 2018-2019)
as the crow flies
so the pigeon
holding straws
within its beak
time to rebuild
who now knows
the unknown
perceives the abyss
beneath egg-frail
cockle-shell hull
waters recede
islands re-emerge
bald skulls of hillocks
stripped of grass and trees
water-logged fields
old bones dug up
displayed in the ditch
mud walls fallen flat
warped wooden planks
water-swollen
so much stolen
by water wind and wave
Weather
We got an incredible one inch of rain in ten minutes last Friday evening. I got some wonderful photos and no, that is not my hand shaking.
In fact the weather in June has been most strange. The end of May saw four consecutive days at 32 C / 90 F. This was followed by four consecutive nights of frost. And then this devastating rainstorm on Friday evening.
Los Días de Noé / the days of Noah, as they say in Spanish. But our one inch of rain fell in just ten minutes and the wind was horrendous. Similar storms are called chubascos and I’ve also heard tromba.
Whatever: it was cold, dark, windy, and wet and 13,000 homes went without power.
After the Floods
(2004 BC)
as the crow flies
so the pigeon
holding straws
within its beak
time to rebuild
not so easy
mud walls fallen flat
rubble and rubbish
litter river banks
warped wooden planks
water-swollen
so much stolen
by wind and wave
who now knows
the unknown
perceives the abyss
beneath egg-frail
cockle-shell hulls
waters recede
islands re-emerge
bald skulls of hillocks
stripped of grass and trees
water-logged fields
old bones dug up
displayed in the ditch
rogermoorepoet 