Solar Water Reclamation

Sparkling
reclaimed water
slowly flows north
in the edge of
the otherwise 
dry lower
Santa Cruz
then to the
Gila and eventually
the Colorado

sun glares off
acres of
solar array
powering
the reclaiming
engines

disgorging the
reclaimed
reconstituted
amniotic fluid
of life

as predator
and prey
observe from
shadow-gorged
hidey-holes and
shade-camouflaged
creviced walls

and I stare 
at the array
wondering
how it got 
this way

dry riverbeds
poisoned blue skies
plastic-laced food
synthetic body-parts
and lies, lies, lies

but of course
we do know the
hows and whys
as cognitive
dissonance
clouds our minds

–LE – 2023

I wrote this last year. It seems to apply now, as we anticipate monsoon season… predicted to be less wet than usual, whatever that is.