I look and read this article like other articles with a sort of detachment like, "That's sad. That's so sad.", but that is all that I can say.  It's strange.

It's like mother nature is breaking everything not meant to be caged.
Flooding rips up Duluth, drowns zoo animals

As the article makes reference to the flood in 2010, and how some expressed anger ( Read more... )

small lilies find the sun
        -- not flytraps, rather
open wide mouths to catch
iris
    a
glistening part finds
          tiny splinters that form lashes and tips that
floating in summer, drifting from any point to
a bend in legs, strong calling
back.                                       a forward stance, ready and not
yet
      there, quite, like
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