For weeks the rain has been falling
and the wind has been blowing
and everything has been coming apart.
We humans think we’re so smart:
we build roads along steep canyons,
houses in floodplains,
levees to hold rivers in place.
Then comes a winter like this one
and it
all
washes
away.
But yesterday, there were:
a break in the clouds
a frog outside the window
and buds on the dogwood on the slope.