Overtilling in the fields
sends vibrations through
earth stilling basin over
flows disrupted unstilled
What they did they did without
merit stilted swallowing
unclear throat
Thinking not knowing still
expecting everything they
desired and thought
they deserved
Now they extract blood from
the coffers expecting rain
Alchemy doesn’t work
that way
Christina M. Rau’s collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like fillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife while her prose has appeared in Punk Monk Magazine and Reader’s Digest. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network.
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