Drought in Chong Khae

The ditch is dry. 

No water runs in it in front of our house. 

In my imagination milkweed pods burst

everywhere.  Their seeds fill the air like snow

and I begin to feel the land itself is being driven

aloft by a dry, un-Thai wind.  We are moving

away from where we once lived, moving away

from our home.

FG        7/18/2015