g’day, folks –
welcome to 2020! good news: jesus punched “reset” over- night & the world sprang back to normal – the rain- forests grew back, everything grows green in eastern australia, the perfect amount of moisture in soil, all the reservoirs filled to the brim for all, zambians, indians, chileans: plenty of water for all; cyclone spirals rewind, hurricanes cancel, the dead rise from floodwaters baptized, seasons arrive predictably (“spring: right on time!”); it’s safe to work out- doors in summer; houses and shops re- assemble, land- slides slide back up their hills, so nobody feels the need to block cars or set themselves alight: kids walk backwards to school from strike, nobody has to think about the future, to fret over what they in the past did to render everything frenetic, fatal, & fractal; everybody just lives their lives day to day, doesn’t worry a dram about abstractions like “the planet” or “us”; smalltalk about weather doesn’t end in pained silence – farmer jones, w/ his overalls & red tractor smiles and waves from his amber waves of grain; mom & dad reinhabit their boxy house w/ curlicue smoke arising from chimney, spiky ball of sun spiraling normally above, never getting too close, never drying up or letting loose. it is a normal year. it’s the now we always knew we deserved, so we just do what we have to do every day, just the same. it’s a happy new year.
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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. |