Rain pours down
in vengeance
Drought-baked land
dares to drink
engorge itself
after three years of tease
My side of the states
swallows the promise
farms freed from irrigation
reservoirs fill fast
Hubris-worn cities
that can’t handle politics
right or left—-
find streets become rivers
while manmade ideas
flow forcibly
down the drain
of those who don’t believe
in Mother Nature
—
Diane Funston has been published in journals including California Quarterly, F(r)iction, Still Points, and Lake Affect Magazine, among others. She lives in the agricultural Sacramento Valley of California with her husband and three rescue dogs. She replaced her lawn with a sustainable urban farm. Diane was Poet-in-Residence for Yuba-Sutter Arts for two years. She is the author of Over The Falls (Foothills Publishing, 2022).
