Poets,
Lift your pens, power your laptops.
Let your verses catch and flare like wildfire.
Now more than ever,
we need your words to smolder
like sagebrush.
Dancers,
Plant your feet, unleash your leap.
Be the mudslide
slamming, shifting, upending the home.
Sweep us away
in your atmospheric river.
Painters,
Stretch your canvas, choose your brushes.
Sketch the storm surge swamping
the sea town.
Render precious flotsam—
lives, capsized.
Musicians,
Tune your strings, finger your scales.
Let melting sea ice pour blues from your horns.
Now more than ever,
we need to sway to your bass lines,
bend to your blue notes.
Cora McCann Liderbach is a poet from Lakewood, Ohio. Her most recent work was published in Unbroken; Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park through Poetry; The RavensPerch; Hole in the Head Review; and Rockvale Review. She has also published a chapbook, “Throughline” (Finishing Line Press, 2024).
