It really sucks when your refugee camp floods. Idlib province, Syria, Saturday. 1st day of winter: predicted hi: 62 f
yesterday: 52 — winter not what it used to be, tho i will live in the past, the present, and the future! scrooge promises — neat trick, most of us being non- trans-historical by nature this little verse-chronicle deals only in the present, only turns into the past if you let it or read the archives in the mean time, who is being inundated? it is easily told: visayas & mindanao: 9 humans dead, 1600 families affected; n.e. malaysia: 6k displaced; idlib province, syria: “our tents are flooded . . . it’s very chilling”; wales: “deep flooding” w/rivers “fast-flowing & dangerous”; n. australia: “wreaking havoc,” washing away beaches; e. iceland: “deluge of mud & rock” most rain in 5 days ever: 23"; n. japan, in snow: up to 39” not to mention the cleanup in most of e. africa & s. asia the spirits of all three shall strive within me. but in fiji, it was wind not rain: cat 5 cyclone yasa: “entire villages flattened, 7k in shelters while in the arctic, trucks fall through the ice now, & people get stranded on untethered chunks of it: thawing faster than the models predicted! who woulda thunk. the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled! they will be! i know they will! ojala & inshallah -- just wait, it will be like like a miracle like waking up from a bad dream & finding oneself different, trans- formed into someone your present self never would have recognized 2020 on pace to be tied for warmest yr in nederland; driest winter in winnipeg history; hottest, driest ever in arizona (214 bodies along border) forests in s.e. brazil now net co2 emitters; while largest inland fishery (tonle sap lake, cambodia) drying up; 1 million humans s.o.l. but still, the past always comes first, grasping yr elbow, saying, rise! and walk with me!
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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. |