Slippery, (When Wet Stuff…Tanka)

Skies…Liquify, Pound…(Pavements)

Public domain, (cc-zero retrieved via Wikimedia Commons); Collection: National Archives at College Park, Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S); Record creator: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), David Falconer, photographer for EPA; Depicted place: Portland, OR; Title: ‘AN OREGON PERSONALIZED LICENSE PLATE WITH THE LETTERS “WET” HOWEVER, LACK OF RAIN CREATED A SERIOUS ENERGY CRISIS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN THE FALL OF 1973. PERSONALIZED LICENSE PLATES COST DRIVERS EXTRA MONEY WHICH IS USED TO CLEAN UP LITTER ALONG ROADSIDES IN THE STATE’

Rolls…aground…(guttered),

drained, hesitance’s stuttered…

Scattered…rains…(pattered),

droll’s downpour dances on hour…

Strolled, dour…droplets…(shower).

Fluent…drizzle…(calm is balm),

all water falls down, now grown…

Rubber wall…skee-ball skids…(streets),

torrents glide, sideline highways…

Speak’st cloud…udder’s rain…(utters).