Melt Water

the melt water flows fleetly downhill

in front of the middle school, the

warm snap between the inevitable

Arctic blasts…

 

weird to see this far north if you’re

from the land, where if Wichita so falls,

so falls Wichita Falls…

 

and the melt water falls but again

the battleship capitol is far north

of Cowtown, and both places are

experiencing similar temperatures…

 

running down hill because the school

and the street are on the south side of

the hill, just a simple exercise in

physics at a strange time of year…

 

but is it so strange now?

 

we’re in the midst of a warming

cycle after all…

 

human-caused? maybe…

 

but we’re still coming out of

the Little Ice Age, or is that

deflection on my part?

 

maybe it’s both, and that’s why

we’ve seen less white on the ground

now than when the goonies were kids…

 

there are less bugs hitting car

windshields now than in prior years…

 

and for some reason, bee death isn’t

the apocalypse it once was…

 

but it could happen again, maybe

signaling the actual end of humankind

and a lot of other species too…

 

so more than just as Wichita so falls,

so falls Wichita Falls, all the human

colonies around them shall collapse…

 

so goes the melt water, so grows

the human thirst for blue gold…

 

the water tower of Asia might be

the first to go because it rides

the tropic of Cancer like a jockey

going for the Triple Crown…

 

and whomsoever wears the

mountainous crown, so goes the

weight of losing the blue gold…

 

water freezes and water melts,

the water cycle on endless repeat

but for how much longer?

only time will tell