Brisbane Floods January 11 2011

 

The river rises

in ones and twos

ahead of the long night

we come to stare at the river

impotent

we shrug on

a semblance of science

we toss around heights and peaks

and over-ground flow

to affect a nonchalance

while this greedy

wrong-shaped thing

spreads its bloated sides

towards our homes

in ones and twos we come

to stare at the river

we watch the eddies

and look aside

it isn't wise

to catch the river's eye