1/18/20

By Josh Rubin

Rain will come today.

First with thunder and lightning. Then it will settle in, the saturated air condensing and falling in drops, fed by the Gulf of Mexico.

Most of the people in the encampment of refugees are now on the river side of the levee. They have been encouraged, urged, over the last couple of months to abandon their places on the plaza behind the levee, and many have done just that. They have worked hard to make order and some sort of strung-together tent homes, village-like, along the river bank.

Many of them have seen the mudscape that happens when the heavens pour down on them. Some will see it for the first time.

I, a witness, will see it. I fear for them.