All day the day has been
raining so hard even the rain
is raining
such that the streets become oceanlike
in their appearance
swaying as it were like a wave
like a giant waterfall
save for the spray
no-one knows where it goes
the creeks are too constraint
to contain it all
so overflow it tides
over the retaining wall
into the haunted streets
awaiting mudslide
and tumult seepage
this rain began deep underground
on the other side of the world
underside the world
where life grows from the core
unlike the sun
stretching over the horizon
even the first person in space
could see the folds in earth
where rivers riven run
disregarding the too bright sun
all of a piece
these tender catastrophes
the magnificent desolation
we are all born into
drenched in rain
flowing undertow
overwhelmed.
Joshua Keiter 