Wishing to Say “Goodnight Irene”, Instead Goodbye-Hello – The Evacuee’s Plaint
Above is the place where a driveway used to be. This driveway belonged to an upstate house to which we fled when evacuated from Zone A of NYC before Hurricane Irene.
Which brings me to:
The Evacuee’s Plaint
From the frying pan into the fire,
the saltine into the soup,
the thick to the thin, the baby in the bathwater to the baby thrown-out
with the bath water–make that roiling water–
from puddled embankment to muddy rapids,
dim to dark,
maybe to absolutely,
the flooding to the washed-out.
It’s still raining here
where we’ve come
to be high
and dry. All feet
are cold
and damp,
but with
five toes wriggling.
Make that ten.
Tags: Catskill flooding after Irene, film of catskill driveway, fleeing NYC for Catskills, Hurricane Irene, Irene, Karin Gustafson, manicddaily, poem about evacuating, The Evacuee's plaint
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September 1, 2011 at 5:58 am
Been there, done that. Hope you get back to normal quickly.
My slam #9 entry: http://charleslmashburn.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/dearest-john-2/
September 2, 2011 at 3:54 pm
make that tent,
lovely expression of life’s high and low notes.
September 2, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Hope you get warm soon!
September 3, 2011 at 10:19 am
pray for hot air going your way.
blessings….
September 4, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Hope you get some warm weather soon
http://gatelesspassage.com/2011/09/05/the-milky-seas/
September 13, 2011 at 12:27 am
Such an uplifting look at some trying times…. try and keep those ten toes warm!!