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  • Before Rain
  • Tom Sleigh

Whatever you do, there are rockets falling,and after the rockets, smoke climbing

up through walls that are exploding.Trees grow up where there once were people, weeds

take over beds of lettuces and coddled flowers,uprearing mole hills unpopulate the fields.

The bricked-in hours of the human have all been knocked down.

No one lingers at lipstick counters, no onestares into a screen to escape the digital mayhem

of heroes hurdling over the heads of monsters.

The old bones on the mountain that stand uprightand shake when winds blow up from the shore,

old bones that shake when the winds roar

now dangle in the void of an unknown dimension.

Forget all this, says Earth to the stars.

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