Sun Moon Lake, Central Taiwan. (AP via Telegraph) heat wave in the s.e.;
already in 90s in n.y.c.; cooler in the west; in between, the jet stream keeps jetting water up the middle of the country, onto us . . . shades of 2019, the soggy spring that spawned this yer verse-chronicle; so, cool humidity: the highs are low the lows are high still — on the gulf, where the precip train leaves the station fully fueled, the rivers keep rising & the people keep needing rescues; new orleans rain ↑ 333%; + wettest may ever in victoria, tx (18.4”), & it ain’t over yet & all that in the least-affected parts of the world 103.5 f in dagestan — so (if you believe dagestan is part of russia) russia just had its highest spring temp ever; hottest day in may ever in hong kong (96.8 f); yuanjiang, yunnan hottest ever temp (111.4); hottest may temp on record for s. japan islands (92.5); but wettest day in may for honshu (11.4” in 24 hrs, in places) rolling blackouts in tehran: drought, rising temps, & crypto-currency mining (those bitcoin blockchains take a lot of power to empower — but people do what they must to survive) & taiwan is trucking in water -- to semiconductor makers, not farmers -- during its worst drought ever (first things first); “we had no choice but to stop planting for this season,” sez farmer ho wan-chin; & 2 days per week w/o tap water, in some parts hell, it’s not even raining in portland! 21 marathoners dead in n. china, as temps suddenly drop, hail pounds, roads iced, winds accelerated 5k humans evac’d in e. malaysa -- floods push them out — while in brazil, 100k affected by flooding near manaus but look, i’m not being doomy — just sayin what’s going on; maybe it has to do w/the climate emergency, maybe not: you decide; but “once you know it you can’t unknow it”; maybe you have to “do something” or maybe you have to write it down
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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. |