Sump Pump

Robert Ronnow
The Imaginary i

Sump Pump

When domestic life just gets better and better,
laughing and crying washing machines and dryers,
clean air and water, rainwater, tap water, distilled water, spring water,
a molecule of water, on land and water,
seedless watermelon, deep snow and shadows, water and bone, female sex drive water sport,
water found by thirsty desert travelers, water from a wooden bowl, seltzer water,
nothing happens, which is something, drouth, flood, magic.

Water goes where it wants to go and so does death.
Water glasses winking and clinking,
watercolor ornaments, waterproof boots.
Dripping with water, chortling like water,
dead in the water on the rocks out of circulation up shit’s creek
all washed up down the drain liquidated. Evaporation of water
collecting over huge expanses, wind and white water rivers. Drink your quota of water.