WORDS ARE POEMS AND POEM ARE POETRY
Each time I phone home
I hear about the conclusive water
the lack of rain
how the dams are drying up
how the supplies are ending in a matter of days.
Here the rain has been unremitting
for a month straight
busying itself with green
leaning against the wind or retaining
itself, refining the definition of rain to a continuity
not a sheet of water
not a deluge
but the soft splintering of the sky itself
Author’s Bio
Klara du Plessis is a poet and critic residing in Montreal. Her debut collection, Ekke, has just been released from Palimpsest Press; and her chapbook, Wax Lyrical—shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award— was published by Anstruther Press in 2015. Klara curates the Resonance Reading Series, and is the editor for carte blanche. Follow her @ToMakePoesis