Hills of red and rain, running
dark as dirt, longing for all the life
that had kept them buried, beneath
tangled roots and desperate leaves.
Dark clouds—like smoke leftover
from the long-ago burns—
curl over gaping ground, feed
an earth that does not remember.
Weeping comes to the hills
as easy as rain, turning them
into an oil painting of ochre and carmine
streaks, vermillion bursts; but only the sky
bears vantage, witness to this accidental art
of abstraction.
The men, working, dig deep—tremble
the once-forest like grit
until their man-made pearl is unearthed.
The guarded, neat rows
of yet-unplanted saplings
will birth no forests.
Rebecca Ruvinsky is a student, poet, and emerging writer in Orlando, Florida. She has kept a streak of writing a poem every day since 2016, with work published or forthcoming in Prospectus Literary, Underland Arcana, From the Farther Trees, Glitchwords, and Poetry on the Move. She can be found at @writeruvinsky.
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