Torrent
May 4 2025
The rain kept pounding down.
Lakes formed
on saturated soil,
rivers overflowed.
I imagine water
drop-by-drop
percolating through the ground
and finding fissures in the rock
fault lines in the strata.
Invisible rivers
cascading underground
in torrents and waterfalls,
great caverns
brimming with cool water
turbid
with salty earth
and pulverized rock.
My well is drilled into this.
The water from my tap
that fell as rain
and may have been sitting underground
since I bought this place,
graduated high school,
Europeans first came
to this faraway land.
Or did it fall today?
Through sandy soil
and porous rock
and some ancient cleft
only to end up here again
in a hot drink
when I’m cold and wet
from all this rain.
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