the tao treats the myriad creatures
as straw dogs to be cast into the fire sayeth lao tse -- and boy, was he ever right! well, actually, it’s more like the dow than the tao (fine distinction, in our neoliberal capitalist universe) speaking of fire: danger “extreme” in southern prairie provinces of canada; 12k acres burned in colorado; fires already burn inside the arctic circle, “zombie fires” started last year that survived into this . . . meanwhile, it’s over 85 f in the siberian arctic (not much snow to melt & absorb the heat): “largest jan.- apr. anomaly ever seen in any country’s national average” (even in this data-driven verse chronicle, there are some facts that arrest one’s gaze) & the globe really is heating, it turns out: israel baking under wk. of 100+; heat records in vietnam this spring (110 f in one spot); but even southern ontario under heat warnings (indices of 100+); 100-113 all over maharashtra; go north? no: days-long heatwave, dehli hitting 114 (43 > avg); & remember cyclone amphan? last week? well, it hammered the coast of the bay of bengal; “the leaves, can you see them? they have wilted, turned yellow. the storm bought so much salt water spray from the sea that it even killed the trees it couldn’t knock down. the sundarbans is finished. all our crops, even our trees have been destroyed. what will we do?” (heat in oceans = more storms, btw) meanwhile, 600 more in kenya flooded out; 9,000 in n.e. india; miami streets flood; s.w. missouri floods; virginia appalachians flood mother nature doesn’t even care about the u.s.a. — which proves the universe really is impersonal!
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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. |