rdking.net

Men at Work in Water

Four brown rains from the basin above
provide a flood, with plain results indicating
an average irrigation to downstream users
would drown the men who labored there.

Providing this flood and indicative results
were accurate in deference and intensity,
it would drown the men who labored there
without concern for range or district.

If accurate in deference and intent
an average flood would be unbound
without concern for range or district—
irrigation found useless without restraint.

An average flood would be unbound
against control sites now provided;
irrigation useless now without restraint—
a danger to the lives of laboring men.

Against control sites now provided
the resulting loss surveys above norm—
a danger to the lives of laboring men.
The flood ranger visits the basin above

where resulting loss surveys above the norm
—although, sedimentation remains normal.
The flood ranger queries the laboring men,
abject consternation clouding their eyes.

Sedimentation remains normal even though
four brown rains fall on the basin above.
Abject consternation clouding their eyes,
an average irrigation to downstream users.

             back | ToC | next