Warming
An hour
before dawn,
so brittle and parched,
mother earth
like sandpaper
this dry winter morning.
Nature thirsts
in anguish before the sun
has even made her daily appearance.
There are those who would deny
the evidence of global warming,
though the signs are all around us,
giving fair warning,
screaming in near-agony from
the gasping throats of continuous drought.
The view
in the distance
a familiar one, and yet not…
still the middle of winter,
this third week in February,
not a white-capped mountain anywhere in sight.
Cristine A. Gruber has had work published, and/or is scheduled to appear in: North American Review, Writer’s Digest, Writers’ Journal, Ascent Aspirations, Ceremony: A Journal of Poetry and Other Arts, Coal City Review, Coffee-Ground Breakfast, Conceit Magazine, The Endicott Review, Eunoia Review, Haiku Hippodrome, The Homestead Review, The Iconoclast, Iodine Poetry Journal, Kind of a Hurricane Press: Something’s Brewing Anthology, Labour of Love, Miller’s Pond, Nuthouse Magazine, The Oak, The Penwood Review, Poem, Poesy, The Poet’s Art, The Poet’s Haven, Shemom, The Shepherd, Ship of Fools, Silver Wings, The Stray Branch, The Storyteller Magazine, Thema, The Tule Review, and Westward Quarterly. She has been a featured poet in Writer’s Digest for National Poetry Month.
Cristine studied Literature, Philosophy, and World Religions at California Baptist University in Riverside, California. She is a member of The California State Poetry Society, The Poetry Society of America, and The Christian Writers Guild. Her first full-length collection of poetry,Lifeline, was released by Infinity Publishing and is available from Amazon.com.
