once upon a time, new york city
didn’t get the ft. of snow expected; only 6-10”; but binghampton, n.y. got 40 — half of that in 6 hrs. flat (broke a record — and “broken record” started to sound like a broken record); while minnesota only got ½” for december once upon a time, floridians dreamed of a tornadic christmas -- when 2 twisters hit tampa bay in december: roofs gone, cars flipped, etc. once upon a meantime, ethiopia had a civil war, displacing 50,000 humans, at the same time floods displaced 283,000 more once upon a time, locusts invaded e. africa in the summer; then a cyclone hit & the locusts came back again in the winter, leaving 35m “acutely food insecure” once upon a year, asia-pacific region suffered a record # of natural disasters once upon a single dec. week, a landslide in brazil buried entire families alive; 1000s of humans fled hi water in java, as it submerged their villages; queensland endured record-breaking rainfall on the coast, while in the bush, drought persisted; huge snowdrifts buried niigata prefecture, 1000s of cars stranded on hiways, towns cut off, army mobilized; a cyclone cost fiji 100s of millions of $$$ damage. once upon a time, the animals were in trouble, the water was going away, & the people didn’t know what to do. so they prayed to their gods & . and they lived after.
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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. |