The Soaking & Chickens

Yesterday

Big rains have come.
On the way to the gate
Streaming pools moved
Across the gravel road.

A big black SUV
Pulled into the Round about
"That must be Lars" Pete said
"Come with help to catch chickens."

Yes it was Lars
Come with a companion
Who was so scented
Enough to cause dizziness

We promised we would not
Kill the birds for food
We shared tricks
For catching them


Then, took a short road trip
North to LaConner
To find caps that read
GO OUTSIDE

We drove into clouds
Emptying
And near Anacortes
Saw the hillside
Crumbling

WATER ON ROADWAY
Stated the obvious
Firemen directed
Us
Over the water's edge

In the store marked
GO OUTSIDE
She asked us,
"Are you the ones who called?"
Pete said we were.

Two caps we bought
I chose from beneath
My mask
Too freshly painted
I stayed outside.

Pete signed my name
She said she could
Mail caps to me
That might work
Another time.

Back home
On the Prairie Front
We spotted
Chickens in the coop
Lars & Scented one successful

Welcome! 6 chickens
Fun foul
Some repair and
Conversation needed
It took place

Then we walked
The field next door
In track the up slope
Flow
From where does it come?

We found a pond
The water comes
Both down the field
And down the road
A kilo notes the soaking.

More rains fall today