Drought

Today like tremors having broken 
a boulder free sending it toppling 
from a cliff in the clutches of gravity 
plunging toward the ground 
encountering my head on its way down
splitting open my skull as a geode struck 
with a hammer exposing my brain 
the realization I no longer care 
about anything anywhere crushed me 
I am a river run dry from lack of rain 
revealing for the first time
in over a century the warped 
wooden skeletons of steamships 
the rusting remnants of vehicles 
ossuaries for their occupants' bones 
fish flopping as they asphyxiate 
finally falling still and lifeless in the mud 
which hardens and cracks like concrete
in the hellish heat of the searing sun as you 
bear silent witness from the shaded shore

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