Tidal breaths,
Bidirectional mammals,
Inhale air
Backtracking exhale.
Like car dead-ending,
Up-street reversing.
Agonising Age, Emaciated Blue Whales
Twenty twenty-two
Late-September
Timor-Leste coastline,
Royal Blue Highnesses
Scrawny starvin’,
Newbornless pods.
Kith Kindness
Sea of Siracusa
Dolphin signall’d distress,
Carers Rossana/Enzo Maiorca
Traced twelve metres,
Gash’d fishery net,
Trapped kith freed!
‘Cruel’ Charles ‘Heartless’ Hurwitz*
Red Gold Fever
Consequences be damn’d,
Soulless Charles Hurwitz
Rough sawn raider,
Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bonds
Hostile Maxxam Corp brute,
Easy pickens Ma/Pa Pacific Lumber,
Pension fund shell-gamer.
Evilest planetary miller!
2023 U.S. Fossil-Fuelled Heatwaves
Meteorologist Guy Walton
Naming/shaming commenc’d,
Heat will kill YOU,
Comatose categories,
Fossil-fuellers finger’d!
Scurvy, Rickets, Really Australia?
Victorian-era diseases,
Two hundred fifty thousand
Hungry children,
Forty per cent families
Food insecure,
Bloated Commonwealth Banks!
Congolese Cowboy Carnage
Vulnerable
Endangered
Critically endanger’d,
Marvellous masterpieces
Mother’s unnegotiables,
Sharks, rays!
Ocean fish keepers:
Long lifers
Slow low reproducers
Population regulators
Fitness instructors
Disease strong-armers,
Untouchable medicos!
Gaunt Great Grays
Broiling Arctic
Avarice bankers,
O’ Great Ones,
Climate firestorms
Marine bottom heatwaves
Sea ice, krill, crustaceans
Going, going, gone!
Psychopathic Whalers, Icelanders
Barbaric bastards,
Bully brutes,
Finest Fins,
Bluest Blues,
Hvalur hf hoodlums
Hideously harpooning!
Fantabulous Forest Fungi
‘O mighty mushrooms,
Wind-makers!
Forest colonisers,
Temperature regulators,
Marvellous Ones!
Airborne spore tons
Cloud seeders,
Righteous rain-makers
Water table lifters,
Rainforest rejoicers!
Logging Rebellion, British Columbia
Edinburgh Mountain’s
Royal Majesties,
Colossals unprotect’d,
Teal Jones, Pacheedaht,
Extinction-makers!

Sea Dumping, Really Australia?
Another rort!
Dumping carbon,
Undoing seabeds
Mother’s sacredness,
Planetary safeguarders.
Fossil-Fuelled Summers
Hideous heat domes,
Desiccating droughts,
Gasping globe,
Forever firestorms,
Cremated creatures,
Still secrecy!
Age of Agony
Climate Chaos,
Hotter, longer, unlivable,
Four synchronised heat domes:
Northwestern China
{52.2C Xinjiang},
North Africa
{50C Northern Algeria},
North Atlantic Ocean
{5C marine heatwave},
Southwestern U.S.
{36C Phoenix nighttime low},
Fossil-fuelled HEAT!
Who Am I?
What’s life’s point?
Not about job,
Not about career,
Not physical life,
Aspects of life,
Not life’s point.
Safeguarding Last Rights
True ice whales,
Colossal crowns,
Perfect strainers,
Seventeen grand metres
Sixty-four big tonnes,
Your Highnesses!
Every Day, World Oceans Day
Hallelujah fish!
Glorious gratitude,
Fecund feeders,
Diligent digesters,
Alkaline-stomach’d,
Diamond defecators
Calcite crystals,
Cracking carbonates!
Meaning of It All
Forever seeking
Life’s clues,
Experiences
Realities
Resonances,
Inner most being.
Obliterating Old-Growth, Fairy Creek Final
Age of Agony
Caterwauling chainsaws
Burly brutes
Roughneck RCMPs*,
Evict’d eagles!
Salmon Nation Rainforest,
Unrepeatable uniqueness
Colossal cedars
Divine Douglases
Humongous hemlocks
Wondrous water,
Spawning salmon!
Your half-ton
Highnesses’ hearts,
Fiendish fisheries,
Simmering seas,
Horrendous Homo sapiens,
A thousand pardons!