Sunday, November 14, 2010

creepies and crawlies

it’s hot.  really hot.  people get a little nutty it’s so hot.  
and then the rain starts.  
the water pours down from the sky in sheets.
the streets fill and city floods.
lightening snaps
thunder crashes 
like you absolutely wouldn’t believe.

Everything is cool and fresh.
New birds appear with this sudden change of weather, 
the toads are out in force. keeping us awake with their insane loudness.
and then.....
the creepy crawlies appear.
four legs, six legs, eight, 300.  flooded out of their homes,
they 
come 
into 
ours.
It’s when the rain begins in earnest that I get to worrying 
about the critters coming in to get away from the rising water.
because, then, 
it’s time 
for the critters
with
no 
legs.

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