By Charles Robert Lindholm
Science Tells The Truth
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October 28, 2020
CLIMATE CHANGE IS UPON US
September 18, 2020
Touching Glass in a Crowd
The Earth burns and seas
Simmer, choke, seethe,
Smashing warnings
Against the complacent,
Flooding
Sticky-tacky vanities
of rich and poor alike
With implacable indifference,
Erasing intrusions in wilderness
With mountainous, hideous
Flames and heat and smoke.
Hungry cougars flee into a plastic
Melting suburbia ill-suited to
A new reality.
But we still misread the moment.
As usual.
Like Pharaoh,
One plague after another
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January 22, 2020
Bye bye Blackbird
Last spring the laurel hedge by my window was empty
No chirruping, calling, no rustling of glossy leaves
No fledglings edging off the nest onto twigs and then the adjacent fence
No wobbling and frantic flapping as parents patiently cajole
No triumphant flights to the Rose bushes
Only to tumble to the grass
As the chosen twig was too thin
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January 21, 2020
Too hot, too hot
Like tracks in the snow
Little lives go
In our melting
Copyright © 2020 Kim Whysall-Hammond
February 1, 2019
NOT AN ICE CASTLE
February 1, 2019
CLIMATE CHANGE IS UPON US
December 2, 2018
Lighthearted At The End of the World
Ed: I’m researching one or more works on climate fiction –CliFi–that will tiptoe through a increasingly alarming future. In the process, I’m finding some previous works that, while dark, are also windows into the subject. So, to brighten your day, here are two:
A Song on the End of the World
On the day the world ends|
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.
On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
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August 15, 2017
Tale of a Bird
July 20, 2017
Our Earth is Slipping
March 1, 2017
Shortsighted Downfall
March 29, 2016
Poet's Corner 