Again the Grass Again the Wind | Sam Killmeyer

Sam Killmeyer lives and writes in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she earned an MFA at Colorado State University. Before moving to Colorado, she spent three years in Manhattan, KS, where she fell in love with the prairie and the Flint Hills. Her poems can be found in Mid-American Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, RATTLE, and elsewhere. You can also listen to her poem on the poetry podcast The Slowdown or visit samkillmeyer.wordpress.com to find more of her writing.   WatersAll the lakes I love are reservoirs with concrete waterfalls kids jump offin spring when the water rises. I walkthrough parks and name them duckponds, lined with cottonwoodsand an asphalt path. My parents don’t know what to do with water. Just likethe summer the septic tank gaveup on us, too full, and a pond grewup beside the crab apple, scummedand stinking, cattails next to the riggedoutdoor shower—garden hose throughbasement window. I scrubbed my body to the sunset, black limbs of the Osage Orange trees. I have i