i guess all that “warm” air in
n. russia squoze the cold air down our way: hi sept. 7 = 96 f / lo = 66 hi sept. 8 = 66 f / lo = 49 (mind you the record for those days = 106 & 41: we’ve always had climate chaos in kansas) (& look at it this way: you could be denver: 101 f hi on sat. / 34 at 9:03 am wed w/freeze warning. spooky.)) meanwhile the commodities futures trading commission sez “climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the u.s. financial system & its ability to sustain the american economy” -- & these folks are involved in setting corn, wheat, pork belly prices (& are trump appointees) & i see where apple news has a “wildfires” section now as entire towns burn up -- most recently malden, wash. & talent, oregon — as 42k humans e-vac from medford; 100s of 1000s of acres afire 0% or 5% contained; even the firefighters evac’d . . . “preparing to move people to the docks for a ‘last stand’ . . .” 2.3 m acres burned in calif. (record) by 7606 fires (but all of 2019 = 118 k acres burned by <5k fires) there are too many numbers in this poem i mean world one day i will write a sci fi novel based on this chronicle i mean a historical novel on catalpa probably leaves
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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. |