Alex Martin - Second Letter to Marlea
2. Second Letter to Marlea
There’s been a lot of rain here.
I was gathering firewood yesterday
with Hannah, my new-old collie
who’s about 15, and snores
& we poked first my walkingstick
and then our heads down
through the brown dead leaf floor
into a tiny cave, and heard
far beneath, the flow of water
rushing on
down to the Tennessee
the Mississippi
& the Gulf
& on.