the waters will flow through the gutters with ease
without you having to interfere
hydrodynamics, you've said
and the clicks of the emails coming, will silence themselves
at least for a time, your head so heavy
maybe you can heal, hard as it can be, through the years
and you, lying so still, giving very little
while the rain pours down
so much pressure passing through the leaves and the gunk
through one small channel
or somehow going around all of it
I can't imagine how that would look
we've crossed that line
all of the water's pressure
moving through
it flows, is cleansing
the pounding on the roof
all of the information is gone now
so lost in everything
and I'm hoping
First published in Qu, Issue 03, Winter 2015
Margaret McGowan has a degree in English Education from UAlbany in New York State. She is the self-published author of Ancestors and Other Poems (2021). Margaret was a finalist in the 2022 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Contest and received an Honorable Mention in the Hudson Valley Writers Guild Poetry Contest 2019. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Hobart Pulp, The Raven Review, The Sunlight Press, Eunoia Review, Ghost City Review, Bare Hill Review, and elsewhere.