Funny . . . it doesn't look like a bomb. Sweden's Stordalen Mire (Moira Hough/Nature) i can’t show you gods & goddesses
i won’t pretend to transcribe the speech of heroic warriors or wily greeks this is a chronicle, not an epic: there’s only just us & the facts like: from 2008-18, the u.s. west had the 2nd driest 19 yrs. out of the last 1,200 they say facts are “dry,” & that’s the driest fact imaginable the government of new mexico urges farmers not to plant crops (colorado r. a mere trickle) & the series of droughts in europe since 2014 are the worst in 2,000 yrs (they counted the tree rings in beams in roman buildings & checked the isotopes, etc.) & 80% of crops worldwide fed by rain . . . moreover sez the red cross, “the vast majority of internal dis- placements are now triggered by climate change” -- 10,300,000 or so in last 6 months -- “people barely have time to recover & they’re slammed w/another disaster” no single combats or catalogs of ships here — just desperate humans looking for someplace to go, each with a family, each with a name, floating on whatever boat they can get meanwhile scientists worry the permafrost thaw will lead to an “epic feast for bacteria and archaea that produce co2 & methane” (a “carbon bomb,” they call it) but i can’t pass down any other epic, with or w/o feasts speaking of feasts: chinese beef imports ↑ 76% last year = there goes the rainforest that’s epic or counts as the closest thing we have to one
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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. |