To add insult to injury after our cabin flooded last spring, looters showed up hoping to score. Instead, they found themselves calling a friend for help when lake water seeped into their own vehicle.
Recyclable World
Perhaps looters like vultures
descending after a disaster
belong to a greater cycle of rebirth.
A lake grown powerful overnight
claims new real estate rights, clinches
eviction.
Still, it stings when the cabin
tucked in waterlogged woods
turns into spoils for punks
in a rust-bucket car,
but karma snags them, too.
As the driver spins tires
mired in water and sand,
we already knew
what the vandals don't mark
the forest and wetlands do.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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