<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Drought Break -1979</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ducks skid on October flat water</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Small buck, leaps up the blond grass</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <i class="">Never enough water here.<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The land splits open like two chapped lips.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your grandpa died.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He gave you fly fishing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and arrogance </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">his gin, straight</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">in the bottom of the jelly jar,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">my throat closing around it</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <i class="">for lack of water<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your grandmother’s gone dotty.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She was halfway there,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">made for easy conversation </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">her rapture complete repeating</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Enchilada recipes </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Forgotten in minutes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <i class="">Bake at three fifty.<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now damns burst</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reservoirs spillover </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The contents of houses sweep out</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to the sea.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your grandmother’s synapses flood.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <i class="">The rivers crests at high tide. <o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i class=""><br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i> - Zeena Janowsky</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>