—Public Domain Illustration
AQUARIUS FAILS
—Kathy Kieth, Diamond Springs, CA
She is supposed to contain the water
in her earthenware: supposed to pour it out
slowly, gently over farmlands
and muddy deltas: tease it over the feet
of reeds and cat-tails, rushes and river
rocks: ease it down the hillsides
with no more violence than
the melting snow… Aquarius has
failed us—dropped her jar, gotten drunk
or fallen asleep—tripped up in her
job: let the water surge over
the levees, the weirs, the walls: drowned
all that hard work and commerce: all that
filigree of ancestral homes: spilled
her charge and smothered all those
miles and miles of passable roads
we had built toward each other…
______________________
Seeing as how today is my birthday (75! Three quarters of a century! Wow!), I dropped a poem of mine onto the world. Remember when we used to have floods? That was all Aquarius’ doing, of course. Someone must’ve violated www.powerofpositivity.com/aquarius-11-things-never-do/ and pissed her off.
Anyway, I hope to be posting my bad poems and silly websites a year from now, sailing calm(er) seas and following winds. By the way, some of those eleven things on the website are true for me and some are not. I’ll let you sort out which is which…
—Kathy Kieth, Diamond Springs, CA
She is supposed to contain the water
in her earthenware: supposed to pour it out
slowly, gently over farmlands
and muddy deltas: tease it over the feet
of reeds and cat-tails, rushes and river
rocks: ease it down the hillsides
with no more violence than
the melting snow… Aquarius has
failed us—dropped her jar, gotten drunk
or fallen asleep—tripped up in her
job: let the water surge over
the levees, the weirs, the walls: drowned
all that hard work and commerce: all that
filigree of ancestral homes: spilled
her charge and smothered all those
miles and miles of passable roads
we had built toward each other…
______________________
Seeing as how today is my birthday (75! Three quarters of a century! Wow!), I dropped a poem of mine onto the world. Remember when we used to have floods? That was all Aquarius’ doing, of course. Someone must’ve violated www.powerofpositivity.com/aquarius-11-things-never-do/ and pissed her off.
Anyway, I hope to be posting my bad poems and silly websites a year from now, sailing calm(er) seas and following winds. By the way, some of those eleven things on the website are true for me and some are not. I’ll let you sort out which is which…
______________________
—Medusa
—Medusa
—Public Domain Illustration
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