Poems by Laurel Anderson
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Climate Change, Ohio
by Laurel Anderson
From Canary Summer 2020
Laurel lives in the Upper Scioto watershed half a mile from the Olentangy River on the traditional lands of the Lenni Lenape people.
Day blazes toward golden honey noon.
Purple coneflowers stand stiff, stare at the sun
waiting for absent bees.
The river gorged last night
on four inches of dark rain
and now remembers ocean
as it rises and spreads silver
into the woods along each shore.
Trees hike their green skirts high
as they begin to wade the cornfields.
© Laurel Anderson