No, not Kansas -- Mongolia, this time. (KFUV-FM) 10 degrees < avg.
2x the normal rain some of maple tree’s leaves show drippy white slime; another’s, lurid nodules; feels like 2019 (was that el niño? or la niña? hard to keep track, what with all this funny weather); basil plants already dead; many trees look dead or dying; emerald ash borers walk w/us along the woodland trail meanwhile: metro manila ties its record highest temp (101.5 f) 23 wildfires in w. siberia; 15 of those start over 24 hrs. c. asia hits the 110s f; massive dustorms in s. mongolia -- no snow, then no rain -- ask batsaikhan enkheethe, shepherd buried in sand as he hunkered down: “it was dark, like the night. i thought i would die.” his brother dug him out the next day; his sheep were not so lucky: lost 200; 9 sheherds also killed, as dust cloud made its way down to beijing meanwhile, drought deepens in brazil -- worst in 90 yrs: crop failures, energy shortages, risk of fires in amazon lake oroville in california < ½ normal level (drinking water fro 25,000,000 humans) but after the drought, the deluge it’s getting to where, if i hear about 100s of people evac’d in a country of the global north, it doesn’t really register -- not w/a million + evac’d in e. india for a single storm: & 237k acres swamped by cyclone yaas; meanwhile, at least one weather record in delhi has fallen in each of the last 10 months (rain, heat, cold) . . . & after the deluge, e. australian farmers face a plague of mice, who’ve “ravaged crops, gnawed through farming equip., caused power blackouts & invaded supermarkets” with all that, what’s a little fungus, what’s a few fewer trees?
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I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |