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Subject: Drought


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03-26-99
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Date Posted: 22:36:24 10/20/99 Wed

Drought

Earth is red and we heed
the rural heat, the white hot
summer and dearth of falling rain.
Feet are dusty bare for us, who see
grass shrink to its spiky demise.
Futile furrows scratch our breaking
nails of hunger, and our pardons beg
with faces upturned to the sky.

Though we dedicate prayers,
no salvation follows any call
toward the mocking blue. All scarcity
pleads with our hearts and souls
in the curve of its burning throat.
We starve for reprieve
beneath an obstinate sky, mourn
a sky that refuses to cry.

~JB~

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