Sunday, June 26, 2022

rapid rain runoff

The all night rain continued

Into the late morning hours

Abating just as I arrived down the hill 

Unsure how to cross the torrent of a brook


Coming to check on the cabin opposite

Where years ago I enjoyed overnight stays

Showing its age waiting on the other side

For when it might be occupied again 


Stepping into the brown water flooding past

Carrying the rapid rain runoff rising fast

Reaching near the top of my tall rubber boots

As I inch my way carefully testing the depth


Turning back not risking injury from a fall

Since I can see from here the cabin is intact

And the green ash tree next to it is alive

Spared for now from the ash borer infestation 

 

The flow of energy surging past excites me

Watching the roiling surface bubbling up

Seeing the standing wave crests churn

Swept along over the rushing waterfall 


This cabin represents a past life

A familiar place we once set foot

Vacant now and inaccessible today 

But full of personal memories