in a white farm house like Jaimie’s. i am watching through the windows. there is a kid at the end of the driveway, hitting the ground with a stick and pacing. there is a teenager walking in circles in the yard strewn with leaves. i go out the side door onto the deck and there […]
Tag: flood
walking through knee deep water. there is no end to it, water on all sides. we are walking to a water tower. the giant round storage bulb on the top of the hydropillar is painted with caricatures of my family members. there is a space for me left blank. my aunt is chastising me for […]
With Mo at the top of a high hill or low mountain. they tell us the roads might be washed out. we should wait to leave. but we go anyway because Mo (who becomes Audra) has to pick up her little brother. she promised. so we find a good strong slab of stone to use […]
i don’t remember much of last night’s dream. i was sitting on a bus that was a train. to my left was a beat up piano and bench. the windows revealed nothing but green leaves. across the aisle there were no seats and the cement floor was covered in a half inch of water. a […]
we mistakenly pull out a widow overlooking a deck when we tried to open it. gracie walks out and up the steps alongside the house. hannah goes out also but it starts to rain. we call for her and gracie. we pull hannah in and gracie washes down, looking like she is sleeping through the […]
lots of camping, migrating. knowing when a place was going to be flooded out and calmly packing and cleaning up before moving on. pieces of yarn everywhere and wondering if we could use a rubber broom or if we would need to get a vacuum. we played like kids until it was time to go, […]
i had insane natural disaster dreams. And tanks stalled in water after getting caught in fishing line. and a concrete city hall in the water to make it look like it was floating in flood waters when really it was just shallow there. I let bandit out of the window and heard something outside in […]
