Contain Her

March marches in
unpredictable cadence.
Hail the hail &
praise the rain’s reign
as it winds in the wind
and drops where it will.

Drought has a way
of making one obsess
about water, so rare these days
I’m compelled to capture
all I can and share with
resident flora and fauna
before summer’s sauna

Served on a half shell
and sold for a song
typically a

mocking bird’s
cover of a

popular tune

Caught closer to ground
a bluebird bidet
when the cat’s are away

on a far grander scale
dually sheltering friends
and providing sufficient

surface area to collect
for a garden yet untilled