they drained
the pool today,
I saw her timeline,
the cracks in her sidewalls,
she swam to the church in the
deep end where she drowned, god,
the clouds attended the services
it rained,

widows all
of us, dark glasses
black mourning, well hell
we drank coronas last night,
I brought out the midwife pictures,
I saw her timeline in the sheets, I took
delivery of something so right,

horses nailed nine,
clock said ten, the picture
of her when she was eleven
was the final piece we needed,
at twelve the church bells chimed,
all the water stopped flowing in heaven,

creation opened up
the flood gates, barbed wire
fences mended boundaries and
corrals tethered soul mates, the land
grew soul and evolution grouped the trees,
it was the bible made from this place, the moon
and the sun,

they drained
badger creek today,
I saw her timeline, the
cracks in the caves at
grizzly falls.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist