lions and tigers and the deluge

There was a flood that created a lake between my house and the neighbors across the street. In it, massive sea beasts were swimming upstream. They were walrus-like, with the tusks of mastadons and the disposition of seals.

Down the road, walking home from her commute, was a show business junior executive, a rather fetching black woman. We chatted. She said she had forgot something that day that she needed for her job. She kept walking as we talked. As she fjorded the stream/lake that ran through part of the street, I called to her and said what she forgot was her canoe. She laughed as she swam.

Later, there were snakes, coyotes, and mountain lions that traversed the water and the wilderness. The mountain lion had the build and countenance of an African lion and not that of a cougar.