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WHEN THE FLOOD CAME


When the flood came I wasn’t ready
After years of thinking I was free
Traces of former lives (neatly folded, forgotten clothes,
loved-out books, broken at the spine)
Safely tucked away in precarious boxes

When the flood came I wasn’t ready
Just when I’d started going through the motions,
A ritual cleansing of biblical proportions:
Henry Miller paper boats
On a calm, muddy sea,
The ink of old letters bleeding out from shoeboxes
In a hopeless, blue murder scene

Our lives framed in by these small disasters

When the flood came I wasn’t ready

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from At midnight, The Birdsong, released June 22, 2010

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Jake and the Leprechauns Sherbrooke, Québec

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