is the entire house of cards
such a “house of cards”? one good gust can scatter it, & the winds are picking up (literal, metaphorical, & both): a small town lacks food or water, post-cyclone a major city’s major river overflows 4x the # of calls re: wildfires v. norm the 100 acre wood burns (pooh! get out!) “worst drought in 500 yrs” beaches already hit 104˚ - 105 f may records fall (& they do) water taps in city of 1m people only work 1 day/wk 4 rivers burst their banks at once: homes, schools, bridges washed away or pummeled by tumbling boulders; 1000s homeless protestors defy authoritarian govt for not providing flood aid april wildfires dwarfed the ones last year (7 x the size of maryland) meanwhile, we (we) have our own problems: cities “open for business,” quarantines cease, w/o testing, tracing, masks, management or plans & it’s this last that puts the crisis right up in yr grill - the swab that broke the camel’s ass that other stuff looks vaguer, vaster, like all the plagues that have ever been or are __________________________ geographical key (in order of appearance): jipapad, phillipines chicago river northern ireland east sussex, england czech republic greece, turkey, cyprus, & israel bulawayo, zimbabwe kasese district, uganda khuroson district, tajikistan siberia all of the global north all of the global world
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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. |