the wind
the wind the wind the wind when wilt thou blow a sea of seeds drifting over tall grass it really does roar around here — where hi’s have run 10 degrees f above normal this month -- it looks like a dry & roaring winter is a-comin’ in 50 mph gusts — no tornado, no microburst, no derecho, just wind and wind and wind maybe will prove our fate but better than 200 mph gusts: that’s what nicaragua got out of #30 named storm iota: an almost-cat 5, the kind that only hits 1ce in 37 yrs, but it’s the second in 2 weeks . . . 62k humans in govt. shelters, houses not one iota left & ½ m w/o power in n.e. u.s. mon., toppled trees & power lines, ripped roofs from louisville to boston, tornado warning in n.y.c. latest-ever 90f temp in phoenix (last summer arizona’s hottest); new zealand: this winter hottest ever while in tabasco state in mexico, 72,000 humans homeless after govt. opened dam spill- ways after flooding from eta & they’ve got water up to their eaves in bulacan province, philipines; president blames typhoons on global heating & calls for those responsible (us) to pay to clean up after it no rains large or small around here — desiccated fall drops down: leaves fly seed-puffs fly by (masive limb just missed the house) what heraklitos sez: everything flies
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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. |