Stubborn

... More rain. Raining, even
as I write. Cities are
under orders to get
out, evacuate. Six
Flags now a water park;
snakes, not in a plane, but
in the wet; people in
trees with fire ants to keep
them company; kids swept
away ... it's the same sad
news on the news. Thought this
was the local, not the
Weather - the weather is
the news. Other places
burning, turning into
desert. That was us, last
year: prayed for rain, now look
what we've got: too damn much.
Yesterday, tornado
warnings on top of flood:

rained deep into the night;
a break 'til a little
while ago. P o u r i n g. Two
inches an hour. They say,
"Turn around, don't drown." Hard
to do when the pattern.
Won't. Change. Perhaps next week ...
Nature's being stubborn.

(c) 2007, Karla Dorman