I live in a city of bayous

They snake through our neighborhoods

Silent until the clouds rip the heavens

And unzip themselves and spill selfishly on the Earth

A rumbling from a trickle

Making us uneasy

We tell ourselves it’s normal for water to rise 15 feet

Nothing about that is normal

And within a flash

The bayou’s lash out

Gurgling and seeking every dry spot they can find

We tell ourselves it’s normal for water to overtake homes

Leaving us with an unnatural city river

We wade in our sorrows because we told ourselves

We could beat mother nature

And nothing about that is normal

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