Poem # 2,187: Flood Warnings

by Mike Bell

1 October 2021

Multiple Bézier curves switch underfoot – runnels – streams of banked up fallen leaves – a foul rain played overnight – a

storm – near-monsoon – was labelled [by a meteorologist] – Now wonted pummellings & flash floods [no longer weird

events] – Rewrite of rulings of all countryman acuity – cattle & skies sow a faux reading – & AI threats of rain will be reset

& new perils forecast – I cross mown fields silvered by flood levels – my annals of seasonal knowing cannot be entrusted

to my children – we are willing them weather-warnings in our wake of blown purchases – I’ll slowly wade in a risen freshet –

a brown eddy – mud & shit will rise from below us as if a sign – as Noah rises from his tomb to eschew his covenant with God