Response...13th

(working thoughts draft for poem)

The Aqueduct

Dark tunnels

Systems

Fed by a singular source

Purposefully constructed

An engineering feat

Hydrating the population

Gravity moves the flow

Intermittently diverted by quakes

Continually reconstructed

Feeling different

Taste different

Gut rotting

Perception

Recognition

Something in transit

Fowl clarity

Dissolution of purity

Flow resisted