So, I was going to write something really, really intelligent about these poems from Janice Lee's series Separation Anxiety. When I first read them, I thought - "Aha! She's writing about the climate crisis (and related spiritual malaises)." Well, now I'm not so sure; though it does seem to have to do with that dead-soul feeling you get from looking at Americans too long. At any rate, it's been a long day of students who've lost their jobs, parents who've lost their jobs, students' relatives with COVID (or other horrible conditions they can't get treatment for); not to mention the anxiety and depression that were epidemic even before the epidemic. So, I'm just going to recommend you read these poems and look at the picture I took of switchgrass on the Baker Wetlands in Douglas County, Kansas, U.S.A. today. We'll be back for Weather Wackiness Wednesday.
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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. |