leafing War and Peace
front to back, back to front
summer whiffle
Added:
hillside and valley
flecked with cloud shadows ...
smell of sunshine
Added:
farmers' market
tasting a strawberry
then her lips
Added:
the ripe tangle
of wild strawberries ...
an urge to love
Added:
overlapping hearts
on a summer train window
our reflections
Added:
first outing
after the breakup
on the beach
I trip on a heart
made of stones
Added:
alone again
on the moonlit shore ...
my shadow
stretches closer, closer
to lapping waves
Added: No More Fairy Tales, LVI
What has been will be again
Acrid black columns choke the morning sun. Trapped in a valley of smoke, cars barrel past leaping tongues of fire. Across Northern Ontario, wildfires burn hotter, bigger, and deadlier than ever. More than one thousand miles away, their smoke casts an orange haze over New York's crawling traffic.
Meanwhile, silhouetted against smoky skies, the Premier’s mouth opens and closes for the camera lights, broadcasting word after word into the heat.
tongues of forest fire
there is no Plan[et] B, the rest
blah, blah, blah...
FYI: Canada’s climate-change-charged wildfires are becoming a horrific annual event.
Over 800 wildfires are burning across Canada, with one entirely destroying the northern Indigenous community of Namaygoosisagagun.
Back in 2023, Emma Paling reported that the same Indigenous communities that gave early warnings against burning fossil fuels are among the first to be permanently displaced by climate change.
The Breach, August 24, 2023: First Nations say they’re not wildfire evacuees, but climate refugees
Indigenous communities that first warned against burning fossil fuels are now facing permanent displacement caused by climate breakdown
