“beta,” 9th hurricane to hit u.s.
this season, submerges swaths of houston again; as “zombie” hurricane paulette hit bermuda, then fizzled, then came back to life at the azores; 1000s of humans homeless after flood after flood in pakistan cities; in karnataka, “villages have submerged, houses have collapsed, roads washed away and standing crops completely destroyed; while china suffered record 21 large-scale floods -- so far — in 2020; “inland seas” in australian outback forming; plus, the never-ending african deluge: 100s of 1000s displaced in niger; 140k homes destroyed in sudan; ugandan hospital floors submerged (but my car is dry so i can afford to remain detached) warmest-ever recorded temps (i should have a button for that phrase) in siberia, as sea ice retreats to northernmost point ever; & melting glaciers reveal all sorts of things: 30k-yr-old cave bear mummy, wreckage of wwii bomber; still-living bacteria; greece was hit by a “medicane” (no, not a first-aid ointment, but mediterranean + hurricane): the classic “streets turned to rivers” + mudslides + ships swamped, sunk; “it was like the apocalypse,” sez a french tourist, using a good old fashioned greek word that fits the alpha, beta, and omega but: no more water, the fire next time -- or this time, as the case may be: four more forest fires in c. argentina; bobcat fire in s. calif. grows in l.a. county (165 sq. mi. thereof); none of that is going away . . . lots of news about whales today (climate crisis playing hell w/em), but we don’t do animals . . . naw, we focus on “homo sap” as burroughs called us, giant well-meaning body w/a beta zombie brain
0 Comments
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
June 2021
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. |