Little known fact: It was Noah’s wife
who, sleep deprived as she was, built
the ark on a winter night like this,
the light of the moon reflected on
a frozen pond. Not true but suppose
the hurricane happened so I could learn,
finally, the lesson of loss & letting go
though who could ever forget the rafts, jet
skis, canoes, cats in cages, dogs in kennels,
the shivering owl seeking refuge inside
a man’s car, the child in a yellow raincoat
& pink boots wading through the rivered street, a colony of fire ants floating on top 
of the water. . .