questioning the weather

all the people who Don’t want it
are there or at home thinking of how
to stop it some who want it are
in the room with their own motives
she is there she wants it she thinks
does she really

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Connie Backus lives with her daughter in the Pacific Northwest and often writes about nature. Her work has appeared in The Wild Word, Silver Pinion and The Gorge Literary Journal. She has work forthcoming in City Brink and Juste Milieu.