Eleventh Transmission - "It Waited" by Michelle Brown

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"It Waited" by Michelle Brown

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May 15th, 2026

Eleventh Transmission Poetry Contest #3 – First Place

It Waited

by Michelle Brown

The trees stood along the roadway,
bitumen cracked, crumbling caverns 
where memory no longer 
lingered.

They loomed, 
sentinels in a world that no longer watched,
no wind could ever make them 
whisper their thoughts again
stark against the dense blue-grey that remained,
they watched.

Friable branches reached 
for the horizon,
silent pulse in the atmosphere, 
which had once sustained them.
They waited.

Deep below, the land remembered 
its everywhen,
a bass cronan caressing the last
flickers of root villi.

The land waited. 

Note:
cronan – deep hum.
villi – microscopic organisms that process food in the gut.

About the Poet
Michelle Brown resides in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Read the poet's biography and Wax Poetry and Art publications on Michelle Brown's Artist Page.

This poem is included in Poetry World #15, published in the Wax Poetry and Art Library.

Keywords: cli-fi, environment, future

Previously published in Eleventh Transmission:
Upon Reflection
by Rebecca Clifford

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