052221

 

frogs peeping

from full ditches

floor dry this time

101020

 

a hard rain hits

storm drains ignored for years

water seeps up thru the floor

041320d

fresh erosion
under the tracks
two blocks from my house
counting the chlorine cars
in each freight train

021620

 outside the rain
flood waters rising there
and inside too

011420

a small flood
begins a week of rain here
Australia burns

111319c

We look back on the 21st century, when more than a billion people had to relocate to high ground. I know I speak for all of you who are left when I say that I fervently wish we could go back to those halcyon days.

102619c

the water keeps rising
but we take comfort in this:
we don't live in New Orleans
the dead won't go swimming
just cause the weather is wet
they live peacefully underground
as they should
not waiting in their little marble houses
for a chance to come out and play

031119c

rain boots by the door
the next 40 days and nights
are looking grim

021919

keeps on raining but
we'll only need a small ark
6th mass extinction

122418c

A hot wind

blows from the future;

skimming the salt waves

of a mighty ocean, you look back:

can you see the shore?

112318

bark spins on the flood
its grubby crew powerless
leviathan strikes!
trout spits out crumbled bark
waits for the next course

111418d

water rises
but not biblically
only 100 m

092618b

this time of year
is usually bone dry
flood warning

051718

after the downpour
mud reached high on the walls
choice property

021118b

goldfish in the grass
30-cm monster
behind the petunia

020718

How it Began

Thank you young man, that cools my throat right well. This is the one about the boy who stole the ice from the moon. Remember? He took a fairy wife, and she bore him so many children they outnumbered the stars. Or wait! They were the stars, I mean they are the stars, but he didn't steal the ice from the moon, he stole the eyes from the sun. And it was his eldest son killed him; his blood became our blood. That's why you probably don't remember him, he had to die for humanity to come into the world. And his youngest son, or maybe it was the seventh one, he married the last mermaid. The one who left the sea, but she went back. And he could hold his breath for a terribly long time, because he had cut out the air bladder of the great fish, the one Earth was balanced on. Of course the fish is dead now. The Hungry Multitude were fed with its flesh, and its bones became the mountains. Earth now flies alone through space, accompanied only by the moon. But I was talking about the seventh son. The seventh son could breathe under water as long as you please, but he drowned in the end. The Sea King, the one who had wanted to wed the mermaid, he sent one of his daughters to seduce the mermaid's husband and steal his air bladder. It worked too, men are so predictable. By this time earth was covered in people; they were becoming a nuisance. A bad end to the blood of he who stole eyes from the sun. When the dead god's children looked down and saw what mankind had done to the Earth, they wept. So many tears fell that there was a great flood. You have probably heard of that at least. Fella said the creator of the universe told him to build a big ship so the animals wouldn't drown, but it was one of the mermaid's daughters. You would think she'd hold a grudge against humans, but she remembered how the Prince's daughter had helped the mermaid soak her feet, and brought her water. So that's how it happened. Most of it anyway.

06 2317c

6 inches of rain
fell in three days
weeds stretch fingers high

062017c

Rain yesterday
rain today
and blimey if it don't look like rain tomorrow

The trolls built a boat
sailed away when the hills got flooded
they would've made it too
if it hadn't been for that meddling sun
it wasn't a bad boat
but it sank like a stone

Three hour tour

They called this Manhattan, the guide said. Reputedly once sold for 24 bitcoins, at its height it was worth trillions. To the left you can see a few skyscrapers poking above the waves.

031116

Anyone going to ICFA? We are, if the creek don't rise. Which it won't, cos all the rain's being used up on LA & MS.


life on a rainforest hilltop
valley life's hectic
if you can't
breathe mud
glub
glub