Harvey

Parts of your body
are underwater
with brick powder
that could stop most things
from crossing your threshold
But not hurricanes
or waterlogged landlords
still demanding payment
for what is now
the idea of a home
If you are lucky
there will be a car you can get into
but nobody can learn how to lose
the only photograph of their grandmother
in her wedding dress
When I first arrived here I was afraid
of being landlocked
and now I wait to hear news
that you are safely landlocked
When this is over
the neighbors will complain that
everything is more expensive
while men in ivory towers calculate
the cost of disaster,
the dollar amount,
your net worth
What jobs you could not go to on Monday
which is how you are counted
in America