"Madly BackPedaling"...

" Madly BackPedaling "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Madly backpedaling
in the snowpack
of long-term
under averages

spanning hair-
raising
caregiving hectares

lurking beneath
panoplies of tree
canopies severely
depleted by de-
foresting

nearing
extinction via
severely endangering
previous centuries

as less storage
and faster runoff
snowshoes no
longer needed

in once-colder regions
for the tiniest
of beings

newly seen
like updated
evolutionary trees

having been left
undiscovered
on the cusps
of momentous
micro-clumps

coming in
from under
once-sump-
tuous be-
humbled
river mud...