third of june (boom!)
already makes me sweat. worms wriggling on sidewalks -- not to escape drowning but -- what? looking for moist earth? (90 f / norm 82 // lo 68 / norm 59) long, hot summer ahead: angry people in the streets angry people watching on t.v., twitter. neighbors have faces pinned to trees: noses, eyes, mouths, as tho to say, you’re o.k. if you look like us -- we need you to be more anthropomorphic, to wear petrochemical doodads, like us; we used to cut down trees in these parts, but if you’re gray, i guess you can stay in asia, you'd be burned alive: 12.3 m acres of trees on fire in russia (mostly siberia); all that burned up carbon goes into the rivers and seas + railway bridge collapsed in murmansk (rapidly melting snow = rapidly moving rapids) warmest june 2 ever in chicago; warmest may ever in nome; hottest may ever in tucson ukraine reservoirs & rivers mark their lowest levels ever; moldova wheat harvest ↓ by more than half meanwhile fleeing cyclone nisarga, 100k evac’d from mumbai (even as “patients rest on hospital floors until beds become available & bodies are left in wards”), while “high winds whipped sky- scrapers & ripped apart shanty houses near beaches” (& another 20 land- slided to death in assam) everybody on edge, every- thing on the edge, nothing to condition the air
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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. |