“the luck of the irish” --
a phrase so ironic it could only have been coined by an irish person . . . but the brazillians get it: 150 killed this yr in floods & landslides (aguas de marco, indeed); global heating “contribues” to more “x-treme rainfall events” scientists say; could be the new normal, they say; survivor sez: “you couldn’t see anything, just earth and mud, just hearing cries, people crying, not knowing what to do. there was no light, there was nothing.” which kind of sums up how the climate crisis feels . . . the javanese get it: 316 homes submerged (glug, glug, glug) — worse than the rains in jan. zimbabweans get it: 1000s still camping out in leaky tents, a year after idai + kenneth (“we are always on edge, careful about our security because there are so many thieves here” — this is what it’s like, life in climate catastrophe) iranians get it bad: billions of hungry locusts, bred by abnormally wet winter, muscle out the cornoavirus on front pages thai people get it — or don’t, if it’s rice: highest prices since 2013 (paddies drying up + people hoarding) the luck of the lucky scots = bookies setting odds on the hottest spring on record at 5/4 but maybe the english are getting theirs, too: “climate change means that without radical action many more years of flood and drought crises lie ahead” (last year brought drought and floods like mad) & this winter in the northern hemisphere warmest on record: 6 f > normal in europe; “there is no normal now,” the climate scientist sez; the “spring leaf index anomaly” creeps up the u.s. map as verdant vernal temps come 20 days early; in s.e., record early spring bloom — nice, but contra naturam, ‘cuz the bears wake up too soon ’n flowers bloom too soon when we know very well winter is coming again
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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. |