march did not go
out like a lamb in n.e. ks. -- several days of hi winds -- but today, quiet; still, 10˚ f > norm hi yesterday; flowers bloom early, birds arrive early, both a bit discombobulated but so are we, what with coronamania & all -- about time we took our minds off it, focus on other things -- like . . . global climate chaos: sure, if we all kept living this way, we’d have it licked; but everybody’s got to make a living, even if it kills them; economic stimulation always means stimulating lots of carbon-based compounds but meantime: florida drier than death valley during march + hot, too (80s & 90s f) = 87 wildfires, burn bans; while 80” of rain fell in kauai; while rice prices go ↑ & ↑ as drought grips thailand, vietnam: rainfall ↓ 30% upstream on mekong; monsoons 2 wks late, ended 3 wks early; & 18 firefighters dead during forest fire in s.w. china, "directly threatening the safety of xichang city”; 9 flood deaths, n.w. pakistan; 7, in n. syria; these people had lives . . . but climate chaos doesn’t follow a curve: it’s a hurricane here, a drought there, wildfires someplace else, flooding in another locale, pestilence hitting another region; its just that this is happening oftener, simultaneously, more intensely; & people are moving to where they think they will be safe -- unless those places run out of water, food, housing, too unless you’re australian, all that seems far away in time and space: not like body-bag trucks outside the hospital in yr childhood neighborhood; the prez finally stops acting like that persian emperor who ordered the sea to be beaten for disobeying him; but we will just beat it in a different sense, as seas rise, dis- covering too late that any- place can sink, anyplace, burn
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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. |