Tag: drought

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 3, 20224:47 pm

Dead Lake Dying, Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island State Park, Utah, United States of America

Punishing

Great dead lake dying
Beneath a punishing sun
No relief in sight

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 29, 20227:00 am

Desert Fence, U.S. Route 50, The Loneliest Road in America, Lincoln Highway, Eureka, Nevada, United States of America

Sea to Sky

In the valley
An empty basin
But for lingering salt
Where once a lake

In the sky
A saltless sea
Atmospheric bounty
Held aloft by the winds

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 13, 20184:21 pm

Storm Clouds, Rocky Mountains, Trans Canada Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Too Late and Far Too Much

It tastes like despair
The air
Like defeat and despair
The charged atmosphere
Alive after the months
Of dead, dry heat

Thunder rolls
Across the parchment plains

Rain is coming
Too late
And far too much

What little soil remains
After wind storms
And dust clouds
Carried the best of it
Off to the East
Will wash away
Rivulets cutting small canyons
Deep into the earth

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 6, 201512:44 pm

Until the rain did fail

Thus they shone
Close to bone
A feat not
Taken lightly

Until
The rain
Did fail

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 1, 20158:00 am

Drought

I watched the white paint shrivel and dry
On the old shed out back

I watched it pucker and peel
In successive seasons
Of wet, then cold, then wet again, then heat
Since decades past

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