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Water Is Rising

Rain has been falling
for two days now,
The dry soil finally quenched
after the long, hot dry.
 
Ditches, ponds and guts
are running full,
Our cup runneth over and over.
 
Three deer just swam by,
neck deep in a river
Of green: the soybeans have
swollen to full, too.

(2009)

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