11 ways of looking into sump pumps

I.

The rumbling of the sump pump
made the sound "sump pump"

II.

shingling and shangling
of a kind of runic sump pump
employed in creating
hurricanoes

III.

The shilly-shally of the some-thing -
a sump-pump or the silence
of the water that's left afterwards

IV.

If I were a sump pump
I'd finally be in demand in New York

V.

How strange the flecks of mauve
the sump pump scattered
in the eaves of the sunset

VI.

Why do you look for God
in chunky forests,
when the very sump pump in your basement
was not arrayed as one of these?

VII.

I would rather
be sump-pumping

VIII.

A contractor and a contract are one.
A contractor and a contract and a sump pump
could get the job done, if they wanted to.

IX.

The memory of the starlings in gunmetal gray feathers
speckled about with a kingly caution
reminded him of the Egyptian temple of Kansas,
a masonic lodge with a sump pump in the lower level.

X.

If it were up to me, we would paint
the sump pumps of tomorrow
day-glo lime-green.

XI.

One sump pump don't stop no show.
One blackbird don't stop no show.
But a blackbird in a sump pump -
that'll stop a goddam show.