happy cinco de mayo,
the official mexican holiday of the u.s.a.! (say the cervezerias, anyhow) but back in mexico, they’re thirsty: 60 major reservoirs below 25%: lo-flo means some folks go w/o running water, x-treme drought in 80% of country, “approaching one of its worst widespread droughts on record” meanwhile, 10k human beings of angolan origin flee to namibia to escape drought, hope for food (40% of crops lost); drought for northern syria; desertification in iran zombie fires flare back to life near oymyakon, siberia, billed as “the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on earth,” even as the rivers are still froze over; earliest wildfires ever, in those parts and in n. dakota, 76,474 acres charred this year so far: “unprecedented,” sez the state forester: 6x the average; “fire season” could be “fire year” after near-record dry march near-record wet april felt in n.s.w., (the deluge-and-drought whipsaw. or drought-and-deluge, depending); millions of bees killed (among other organisms); worse in w. afghanistan; 100s of acres of crops, orchards destroyed, 12 humans die from flash flooding elsewhere, world war 1 relics showing up as glaciers melt in the italian alps; glaciers in canada, iceland, elsewhere melt so fast they’re changing the course of rivers . . . 90k people in southern u.s. w/o power yesterday a.m. after massive tornadoes, hail, storming, drumming this poem is out of control this poem is out of control this poem is out of control ¡loco loco loco soy -- y cada dííííííía, mas loco!
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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. |