Drought, Trump Elected, 2024
Seventy-eight days
without rain,
too numb for tears,
even fall leaves
(bereft of color)
cling to old branches;
water is landless
mourning, like me,
the loss of people
who once loved the earth.
Pamela L. Laskin is the former director of the Poetry Outreach Center, and published author of three young adult novels and five books of poetry. She is currently at work on a book of blogs: “SHADES OF SWEETNESS AND SORROW FROM A SENIOR BLOGGER.”
The Marbled Sigh 