An excess of Glare and Skyglow

in poem •  6 years ago 

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The previous evening when the downpours came and exceeded

their welcome once more, we recalled how it was

prior to the work was done, before the trenching

what's more, tiling, before the diverting of downspouts

also, regrading, before the numerous estimations

discussions, and caulking, when the cellar

had topped off with water, all of a sudden, more

than once, before our epiphany that the fix

was dependent upon us, when we ran wild for containers

also, hoses, cleans, clothes, and shop-vacs to check

the rising and reviled the sump that proved unable

keep up, and the flooding felt like equity, as

discipline for each guarantee we had ever

broken, each great dee

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