"trouble" - I began this poem last month, but just finished it today


near Villarejo de Órbigo, Castilla y Leon, Spain

trouble
oh trouble
on my mind
in this late May
of blistering heat
and the cycles of the sun
and the seasons and the blood
roll together in this crowded ocean deep

and I swam through this ocean
deep and crowded
finally to gain dry land
somewhere in June
where and when  
a drought had just begun
and our own personal southern humidity
ran away
escaped into everything turning dry

the grass dried and got hard
it pricked our feet as we left home
without shoes
and we wanted to touch
the hot arid soil
and the hot stones imbedded
in the powdery black dirt
carried aloft by the dry
hot wind

but rain is coming
even today
so as always all things will change
and nothing will be like
it is now

nothing

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