it is 8:30 pm & only now am i
sitting down to add the latest fit to this verse chronicle -- busiest time of the skool yr + busiest time in “nature” -- a gorgeous may day here; this morning, “not a cloud in the sky”; but dangerous for those who like birds: me & my friend who’s birded the same spot for 45 years: the migrant birds that fairly “dripped off the branches” in the 90s now unusual (tennessee warblers chestnut-sided warblers blackpoll warblers he mentioned several more) i know i promised no animals, but if ginsberg can get sentimental re: the wobblies (ha ha, joe hill, y'get it??), then i can get sentimental re: the birds — esp. too-late hour to front the basic facts of life & declare its meanness to the world -- record cold in east & north, record heat in west u.s.a.; s. central brazil droughting out, as paraná gets pummeled w/rain, w/frost in the forecast(!); e. africa flooded; s. africa bone dry; driest & sunniest april on record for ireland: potato crop is suffering (again); “ongoing flooding in kenya has claimed the lives of another 164 people, a govt. official said”; & so on & i read in a study (another one) from natl. academy of sciences: “by 2070, up to 3 billion people are likely to live in conditions 'deemed unsuitable for human life to flourish’” -- esp. if you throw in a pandemic + depression -- which makes me glad i’m not 8 yrs old -- which makes me wonder if it’s not better to not worry abt anything at all, just talk the happy talk, walk the line, & if the room’s too full of smoke, just leave . . . & the kids -- well, all you can give them is a good start in life, you can’t shape the ending -- good luck, bunny so, where is the “obligatory note of hope”?? you won’t sell any blogs this way, joe, not by saying what you see as so
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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. |