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DROUGHT
By Sam Calhoun
From a far ridge
beneath stratocumulus
too thick to glow
I can’t tell if
it’s smoke or if
it’s starlings,
the way they
both seem to burst
from a little flame.
Sam Calhoun is a writer and photographer living in Elkmont, AL. The author of the chapbook “Follow This Creek” (Foothills Publishing), and a collaborative work “The Hemlock Poems” (Present Tense Media), part of the Conservation Through Art: Saving Alabama's Hemlock program and exhibit. His poems have appeared in Pregnant Moon Review, Westward Quarterly, Eratos, Boats Against the Current, and other journals. Follow him on Instagram @weatherman_sam, or his website,www.weathermansam.com.
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