The previous evening when the downpours came and exceeded
their welcome once more, we recalled how it was
prior to the work was done, before the trenching
what's more, tiling, before the diverting of downspouts
also, regrading, before the numerous estimations
discussions, and caulking, when the cellar
had topped off with water, all of a sudden, more
than once, before our epiphany that the fix
was dependent upon us, when we ran wild for containers
also, hoses, cleans, clothes, and shop-vacs to check
the rising and reviled the sump that proved unable
keep up, and the flooding felt like equity, as
discipline for each guarantee we had ever
broken, each great dee