Floods and their aftermath--poems

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after the flood

yard full of photos

drying out

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black sodden fields--

slender streams snake through

toward the river

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the flood

taking his seventy-year

collection of treasures

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new torrents in flooded town:

    tears of the victims

    viewing their losses

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82-year-old's

jet ski of no use now

the rising river

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family of ducks

s~w~i~m~m~i~n~g

the flooded street

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red mud

sucking at the worker's shoes

seven days of rain

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catching "zzz"s and rays

weary floodfighter

waits for more sandbags

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on the fire escape

a man in suit and top hat

signals for rescue

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