Poem # 2,187: Flood Warnings

by Mike Bell

1 October 2021

Multiple Bézier curves switchunderfoot – runnels – streamsof banked up fallen leaves – afoul rain played overnight – a

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

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

& new perils forecast – I crossmown fields silvered by floodlevels – my annals of seasonalknowing cannot be entrusted

to my children – we are willingthem weather-warnings in ourwake of blown purchases – I’llslowly wade in a risen freshet –

a brown eddy – mud & shit willrise from below us as if a sign –as Noah rises from his tomb toeschew his covenant with God