summery march;
chilly, sodden may; but it’s getting back to “normal” (new normal or old?), meaning it will be scorching in a week or so kind of an analogy for the last 100 yrs: blue states turned red: read all about it! that’s right: n.a.s.a. paints the country red — dark red: every 10 yrs, the maps come out showing the averages for the last 30; for most of my life, the country stayed half-blue (below avg.), half-red (above); since 1990, it’s like somebody left the u.s. on the griddle too long, it’s all charring around the edges until its burnt in the middle, so you’ll have to throw it away and cook a new burger 'cause even a few degrees can totally f*ck up yr cookout, make the burgers more expensive, wash out yr beach (& the majority of atmospheric co2 released since 1990) precip map the other way round: bluer and bluer (well, teal, really): the greater missouri-mississippi basin like a funnel for a ton of runoff, sluicing down to the gulf meanwhile, 14 villages in west aceh, indonesia submerged; & jakarta declared “world’s most environmentally vulnerable city,” by u.k. business risk experts (it can always be worse) tornado in wuhan kills 8; local posts on weibo: “i’ve lived in wuhan all my life & [say it with me] i’ve never seen anything like it. there’s been so much extreme weather lately.” funny, huh? 68 f > normal in n.w. russia; siberian wildfire season underway this weekend saw opening day of california wildfire season, too: 1325 acres of w. los angeles co. scorched as of 1:30 p.m. yesterday (0% containment); meanwhile, irrigation water shut off for farmers around the california-oregon line (forget about the salmon & wetlands) & soon the summer will begin. here in the u.s.a., it will be memorial day, start of the endless summer, & no one will be allowed to wear white shoes again or ruby slippers, ‘cause no matter how often you say it, this is it: there’s no more home to get to
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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. |