Smoke from West Coast fires forms a cyclone over Pacific and blankets several US & Mexican states. Wildfire plumes have reached up to 10 miles in height. until they think
long days shall never cease . . . new orleans forecast: today: rain & wind tonight: rain & wind tomorrow: hurricane sally (not making this up) . . . who’s one of 5 named storms in atlantic basin simultaneously (2nd time ever) with patient look thou watchest “9 cities see earliest snowfall ever. s. dakota river in flood stage 17 mo. last decade hottest ever on earth. brutal calif. heat wave off the charts. historic wildfires across western u.s. things can only go up from here, right? that’s not what the experts say.” where are the songs of spring? . . . think not of them “it seems like this is what we always were talking about a decade ago,” sez the climatologist. “a lot of people want to blame it on 2020, but 2020 didn’t do this. we know the behavior that caused climate change.” photo last aug: man kayaking through nebraska state fair; this aug, half the state in drought; range fires &c. summer has o’erbrimmed . . . 4.2 m acres = conn. + rhode is. = how much land has burned in west; more towns incinerated; “firenado” filmed in “hellifornia”; possible tallest smoke plumes ever recorded on earth’s surface; “it looked like a bomb went off” &c.; “clean air centers” in oakland; dozens dead in oregon & fires won’t end “until the winter’s rains fall,” sez the state fire chief borne aloft or sinking as the light wind lives or dies . . . 50 human beings trapped or crushed in gold mine in congo, after heavy rains; 102 humans dead from sudan floods; 11 humans dead in nepal: landslides follow massive monsoons; more inundations in indonesia, japan, bangladesh, kolkata, kerala barred clouds bloom soft dying day “it’s going to get a lot worse. i say that w/emphasis b/c it does challenge the imagination. & that’s the scary thing to know as a climate scientist in 2020.” the last oozings, hours by hours.
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
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. |