"Moon Lake, thinner than a mile . . ." In Taiwan, this week. (Instagram, molly888666 photo) so i guess we’ll all just keep living
the way we are living and doing the things we are doing & working at our jobs day & night until we no longer can do any of that stuff which may be sooner than we think kansas has always had climate chaos — mid-continent x-tremes — so as the world goes wonky, will we even notice here? or will the x-tremes get more x-treme in kansas, too? there are lots of predictions out there but we don’t play that: we wanna know what it’s doing to people, now as for the midwest, well, burning season (when you burn off the dead tallgrass in yr pastures to stimulate new growth) is not going so well some places: like wisconsin, w/340 out-o’-control wildfires so far this year, complete w/evacuations — snow melted early, things dried out, got windy; minnesota had 500 fires in 5 wks, burned 20k acres; & mt. rushmore closed by s. dakota last week; but climatologists chalk it up to normal climate variability: nothin to see here but i can’t help but notice that sioux falls, s.d. had its earliest 90 f temp ever (April 5 — old one, in 1954, was April 14). hmm. meanwhile “x-treme temps around the world” (on twitter) sez sites in togo, ghana, burkina faso hit 108-109 f; & s. china morning post sez hong kong had its hottest march, w/5% of normal rain; while “moon lake” in taiwan looks more like “moon scape,” sez taiwan news, @ its lowest level ever (a “little lower layer,” sez ahab, & here it is, w/o the water, tho) meanwhile, polar blast hits europe & alaska: switzerland, slovenia receive new record april lows, + plenty of local records across europe; & fairbanks is -30 f — some places up yonder are looking at -50 (the scientists get to say when a pattern is a pattern, but my body has a mind of its own when it tells me when to be alarmed) & o yeah methane levels in atmosphere highest ever recorded, whatevs but we don’t traffic in predictions, not about what’s going to happen to ⅓ of land species, ½ in the sea, to public lands in brazil, or possibility of dengue outbreaks there, or the 2021 atlantic storm season or the california wildfire one, or ⅓ of antarctic ice shelves, or all the horrible stuff the u.s. natl. intelligence council sez might happen -- cuz might ≠ right; "might" = in the future = maybe so / maybe not = keep calm = carry on
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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. |