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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