Monday, April 13, 2020

April  13, 2020


RHODE ISLAND RAIN


It rained and rained,
feeling like it was raining 
non-stop for 3 days  - now ….

At some point  mumbling,
“Too much. Too much.”
“Enough! Enough!”

10 years ago we were
standing in ruin and rot -
with mop and squeegee  ….

Too many memories -
sloshing around our basement…..
holding ruined pictures and trophies …

Cursing prayers - bloop-bloop -
up out of the depths of all this water –
all this rain – all this ruin.

A sacred place - a basement -
in a yellow wooden  building
was gone for good – for bad.

Not that far from a river
in a remembered moment
in Rhode Island – March 2010.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

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