i don’t want to know
whether the weather is ok today. well . . . ok: it’s basically 20 degrees below the norm right now. like a hi 24˚ f < norm chez nous. “polar vortex shatters records” &c.; it’s supposed to go up 20 degrees tomorrow, so all will be well. hoop-la. if coronamania has taught me anything, it’s we’re un- prepared for everything record-breaking hi’s in alaska; drought in winnipeg; michigan fruit crop froze; record heat, drought in florida (wildfires + wildfires); cannes had 2x its may rainfall over the weekend; “west-nile-carrying mosquitoes managed to survive a german winter” . . . melting glaciers redraw boundaries between italy & switzerland; record hi’s in alaska, seattle . . . & if covid + locusts weren’t enough, flooding now threatens somalia’s 2.6 m “internally displaced persons” (when was the last time we heard that term . . .) massive dust storm in dehli; 50 dead of chikungunya fever in aden (i know i know — look it up); more floods & landslides in e.africa; & warnings from scientists (again) that enviro degradation = more pandemics well . . . let’s just say it’s bad & we don’t want to know (i know i know) about it . . .
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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. |