Breaking Up

Breaking Up
for Laura Morton

Rain across Texas today didn't help
The sky so close to the mesquite earth
Weeping
Far as the eye can see,
Through towns like Marble Falls
Luckenback
& Fredericksburg.
Rain across the entire LBJ spread,
Muddy ran the Pedernales River,
The sun a distant memory.
I tried different tricks
To push her out of my mind,
"Get Present,"
"She's wound too tight,"
"Never would have worked"--
All failing equally.

-Austin TX, 2008

time

Time the cackling witch
Brings all things to flower
Then in half an hour
Leaves them in a ditch