How to sit Still and wait In this time of Pandemic How to sit And be still Is to be centered breathing, quietly raging How to sit Still and wait Questions flooding The brain Last night I saw flooding somewhere unidentified the water showed no patience the water, which knows how to be still, rioted down the street, taking bites from walls shops and houses eaten clean through bottom floors, cars carried piggyback of no consequence, compact midsize, sedan, old, new, uninsured people on the other side of the river took videos patiently as their world dissolved before frightened eyes they learned patience How to sit Still and wait they had seen it all before knowing the water would come How to sit Still and wait How to sit Still and wait in this time of endemics.
