The World Is Running Out of Water
"[ Alaska's] earnings from fresh water will eventually dwarf its earnings from oil."
New Yorker, April 8, 2002
when we've chopped the last glacier
dragged the overgrown cubes
into the waiting ships hull
when the last containers last rainwater
cross the ocean
when we wake the children
hands and knees patrol dew off clover
lick condensation for the glass
scratch our heads squint
at dust at the flame sky
wonder why |
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Diana Brement
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Diana Brement is a Seattle-based journalist, editor and poet who writes regularly for the JTNews, Washington’s only Jewish newspaper. Most recently, her poems have appeared in the Northwest anthology, Limbs of the Pines, Peaks of the Range (Rose Alley Press) and the first and second volumes of the literary journal, Drash: A Northwest Mosaic.
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