051920b

drought so intense
the lawn dried and cracked
yard-long gash

041320d

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

040920

hot and sunny
yesterday's downpour
transpires

040220b

bright
summer sun
parched brown grass
first
drops in
a billion years
Earth
steps in
Mars wakes up
look
up at
the brown planet

032320c

churned
mudcaked wheels
another rainy day

032220b

missing blue raincoat
on the hook only
when the sun shines

030520

the rain slows to a trickle
grass blades peek from the flood
well into March
in the hottest year on record
we'd be listening to spring peepers
if we hadn't vomited poison for years
and killed most of them

021220

another day
of rain on sodden ground
wet enough for ya?

021020

Today's Forecast


Alabama's trying hard
to get its 56" in
before summer's drought

sloshing through the yard
in a 4-wheeled open chair
tracking mud on in
dirt clods everywhere

well, that's enough
it's almost true

013020

We have entered those well-remembered times
when the politicians ooze and crack
staked out in the fields
where they can do the least damage.
The priests in their ivory robes
glide through the villages
bending down to upturned faces
tapping those who are worthy
of uplift to the Cathedral.
We bow our heads
pray the rains come soon.

010320c

37
more days of rain to go
nights, too

110719b

Rain tows the cold weather behind it,
or the front pushes the rain ahead,
either way,
like Mr. Horse,
I don't like it.

110319c

the last fire-ant hill
of the season pounded flat
Queen waits for spring

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

102519b

Dodging the raindrops
I miss a few
I am just going to stay wet
until the indoor air dries me
rain in the age of wheelchairs

101619b

surprise lilies
drink up the rain
late bloomers

100819b

rain lilies are gone
by the time the ground dries
searching by wheelchair

092419c

gardener checks
dry rain barrels just in case
hot blue sky

091619b

fat splats on the windshield
dry bones by the time we park
and get out

072119

the jungle
that is our garden
morning rain