Dry Well

Town's been dry three summers,

well's been dry for one

they stopped pulling water up before the drought had begun

Bone wouldn't get within

ten feet of the well

said something down there was "too loud to listen to all the

way"

Three bodies at the bottom,

none of them from here

whoever put them there knew the town wouldn't ask,

wouldn't fear

I asked Bone one more time

if she'd try, just once

she looked at that well a long time before she nodded

...she says:

down here...