You leave and then
it rains and rains.
Flood warnings
for Ovando, Seeley
Garnet, Greenough,
Clearwater. The garden
glistens, glitter on lilac
leaves in shafts of sun.
I sit alone on the wooden
bench, hood up, smoking,
listening to rain, percussive
on the furnace pipe. This old
body hums. My knee aches
and I try to remember where
I put the cane. I remind myself:
weather changes. This land
will be dry again. There will
be drought.
Come back.
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