Mikaela Castledine #147 Where the Creek Runs

To the side

where the creek runs over

it’s banks when the rain has been heavy

the weedy grass is combed

into those same isotherms which

just the previous evening told us

that the rain was coming

When it fulls in a quiet moment

we can hear the roaring

all the way up to the house

after a rained delay while the runoff

collects itself into the culvert

then gathers a head and gives it

to the hill

carding through the rooted reeds

raking through the litters and the gravel

carrying a solid bodied block of stone

tumbling through to the weir

on the other side of the driveway

and then subsiding

back into its bed

which it has made
and now must lie in