may-eve: a dove emits
little plaintive whoops blue, blank sky the leaves appear calm, for once it is manifest that there is no death there is no “climate” in our little quasi-urban arcadia we can do anything we like. & the little girl told the vice prez “i want to be everything” we all want that but everything pushes back at us: pushes back at europe, w/its hottest april nite ever (crete; 87.3 f); pushes down on tajikistan, w/its hottest april day ever (100.2 f & odisha state in india in low 100s, too); pushes hard in s. madagascar, where the dead hand of drought falls heavily: 27% “acutely malnourished”; everything also takes aim at aukland: water restrictions until aug. (their winter); it pummels texas & oklahoma, where the wind comes rushin down the plain at ~60 mph, carrying hail the size of grapefruit, flying sidewise shattering windows, battering siding, roughing-up roofs, totalling cars & obliterating windshields everything has something to say about fisheries in quatar, heat in chennai, flooding in china, glaciers shrinking (& w/them, asia’s drinking water); amazon flooding, frequency of droughts in sunny california; & methane plumes bubbling up in the arctic seas plus, everything is going to get more expensive: bloomberg sez corn prices doubled, soybeans ↑ 80%, wheat ↑ 30, this past year: china needs more; u.s., brazil have less rain, so that “generally people see this inflation continuing,” sez the commodity analyst; “the relentless rise in prices acts as a misery multiplier, driving millions deeper into hunger & desperation,” sez world food prog. dude; “we will take pricing action,” nestle chief exec. officer creepily sez while “cities around the world hire ‘chief heat officers’” — b/c what sez “we’re taking action!” better than hiring another administrator? personally, i want to be above everything, living on air, bodiless, like god meant us to be, rejecting physical realities we do not like or cannot cope with but everything here is fine, goes on as normal; i’ve got a wonderful feeling everything’s going our way because americans are optimists & anyway, who can afford to think otherwise on days like today?
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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. |