Soon, we’ll be frogless.
Some won’t care till we’re dogless.
For others, catless.
When hundred year storms
become annual, there’ll be
no more denials.
Geography Class
of the future: What is that
island? Florida.
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Anne Gruner is a Pushcart nominee whose poetry has been in over a dozen print and online publications, including Amsterdam Quarterly Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, New Verse Newsletter, Written Tales, and Poetry Downtown 2024. Her other work has appeared in Persimmon Tree, Third Flatiron Review, Constellations: Journal of Poetry and Fiction, Hippocampus Magazine, Silver Blade Magazine, and others. A former CIA analyst, Anne lives in McLean, Virginia with her husband and two golden retrievers. https://www.annegruner.com/
