Nature
Full of Beauty
Monuments of something
Greater than we
Mountains and mesas
Prairies of gold and green
Redwood giants standing tall
Stretching arms in silent prayer
Simple hopes for survival
It all gets lost in
Torrential downpour
Flooding the world in tears
Raging fires, lightning born
Broken coyotes
Howling outrage at humanity
Lay beside asphalt rivers
These stark reminders
Flora and fauna lost
Created by human locusts
Manmade drought
Turning
Forests to metal wastelands
Connecting
Concrete anthills
Full of ingenuity
Cities.
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Mary K Brackett
Mary Brackett is a novelist, poet, & award-winning short story author. She has authored and co-authored articles for magazines with her husband and is currently writing a series of novels with her talented daughters.
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Time itself bent and morphed, allowing Shannon the precious seconds needed to see and adjust to the disaster unfolding in front of her. Each frame showed minute details she would have missed had the clock not slowed down until she heard every click of the hands as they swept toward the end of everything. If only she was being melodramatic...
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Good one, Mary.