MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Cynthia Anderson: Deluge

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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

Issue 24:	30 Aug. 2024
Micro-Poem:	33 words
Split	Sequence

By Cynthia Anderson

Deluge

open mouth 

climate chaos 
a dust storm collides 
with a downpour 

ready to strike—

vapor trail 
an atmospheric river 
bursts its banks 

cloud serpent 

high water mark 
the silence 
of ruined lives

Bio: Cynthia Anderson

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