The Daughters of the Floodplain
The sky unbuckled at the rim where thunder crowned the plain, And from the loam, the river rose with judgement in its reign. It leapt the banks where cotton fed, and swept the homesteads bare, And bore away the daughters’ song that once had lingered there. No cradle sways, no echo sings beneath the shattered tree, The river took the children’s song, and drowned what was to be.