good evening, mr. & mrs.
earth: here's the news from the news-from-poems dept.: . . . 28% of world’s largest wetland, the pantanal in s. america, burns. it makes up 3% of the total wetlands on the planet. wetlands are the best carbon sinks on the planet -- or the best carbon-emitters, when they burn . . . but now i’m talking about concepts . . . not as compelling as 100s of human beings buried when half a mountain shuffles down on 'em or 200k humans evac’d in c. america after hurricane eta, as another cyclone burbles up & heads their way: “we have a covid situation, we have dengue, we have other vectors we are monitoring. now we are waiting for the development of the next storm” -- while n. carolina gets the dregs of eta, w/10” of rain, 7 dead from all the ways people die in flash floods & in the rest of the u.s., most of us remain in or enter into drought territory (imaginary review of this verse-chronicle: “doom scrolling with literary pretensions”) what else? let’s see . . . north pole temp rose above freezing yesterday . . . hottest oct. ever in c. russia . . . yesterday a.m. woke up to 27 f here; but p.e.i., canada, started their day at 61 . . . record hi’s in maine, record lo’s in the sierras . . . (you can get the “long-term trends” from noaa and epa & shit like that: we give you live-action x-tremes in front of your face -- blow-up action, baby! b/c otherwise, nothing gets yr attention) 53k i.d.p.’s (internally-displaced people) so far, in somalia’s seasonal rains (i.e., floods) . . . & philipines slammed by yet another typhoon, 39 dead, 32 missing — 350k evac’d: all this, after hurricane goni washed away 270k houses & where are the families of the dead & what are they doing? (“the quality is uneven, the plot takes wild hairpin turns, the whole is overdone, withal.”) well, yep. you gotta work w/what you’ve got, which may be de trop, or maybe not enough, too late, whatever, we'll see
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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. |