Rain thunders down.
Barren moss-scraped forests –
sponges no more,
water flows as torrents –
rush quick-quick down rivers,
flush and undermine banks,
no gentle trickle
through humus deep
into fen and swamp,
bog and seep,
no slow release to rivulet, creek and stream
rush quick-quick down rivers,
run to estuary and ocean.
Comes cracked dry summer –
drought in a land of rain.
Janis La Couveé
Janis La Couvée (she/her) is a writer, poet and conservationist with a love of wild green spaces, from Campbell River, Canada—territory of the Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ people. Words now or soon in Thema, Bulb Culture, Isele Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Paddler Press, Harpy Hybrid Review, Rochford Street Review, Litmora Literary Magazine, Dirigible Balloon, Pure Slush, Counterflow, Splendor of Wings (League of Canadian Poets), among others.