High Water

The grocery heads nod
and word gets around.
Twelve is blocked,

Malone is washed out,
but the back way
to Astoria is open.

Farms on Brady Flats
are flooded,
but that happens every year.

Swans are wintering
on the golf course,
geese use Markley's pasture,

shorebirds are on the loop road,
ducks are everywhere,
word gets around.