Brown mud, black mud

The black mud of the river bank
used to be the brown mud of the farms upriver,
I swear.
Their textures are both soft and fine.
But one is black, the other brown.

It has been raining for several days now.
The weather is still stormy.
When I looked at the bank of Bongoy River this morning,
the normally black-colored mud
had a thin overlay of brown mud.

It has always been like that after heavy rain.
The overlay of brown mud from the farms upriver
would soon be part of the black mud of the river.
I know.
I grew up beside the twin rivers of Bongoy and Bangon.

(Photos taken by Cecille Reyes on August 6, 2019)

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