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Water Shortage

Rates of statistics

from catastrophic

climate critics

not listened to;

upon the mountain

a mother and child

under shadows of trees;

only drops of rain.

B.Z. Niditch is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and teacher who resides in Brookline, Massachusetts. His work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including:Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art; The Literary Review; Denver Quarterly; HawaiiReview; LeGuepard (France); Kadmos (France); Prism International; Jejune (Czech Republic); Leopold Bloom (Budapest); Antioch Review; and Prairie Schooner, among others. His latest poetry collections are “Lorca at Sevilla”,”Captive Cities.”

Copyright © 2016 by B.Z. Niditch

Wind Sails

Off Gloucester

with the wind sails

burning up the coast

that tomorrow’s red sun

disappears at first light,

my brow beaten

into a Melville frenzy

spotting a Big White

of flesh

that old Ahab

would harpoon

daring to take

a photo with enough

space and time

in these storm clouds

before a voyage landing,

and the breeze taking

even the crows

on the home harbor’s neck.

B.Z. Niditch has published five times, thus far, on Rapoetics.com. He has a poem in Randomly Accessed Poetics’ latest Issue No. 6, Ghost House. And will soon have a single author chapbook, published by Penhead Press, released in June of 2015, called “Everything, Everywhere!”

In additon to writing word music, B.Z. Niditch writes plays, fiction, and teaches. He Lives in Brookline Massachusetts.