Eight hundred
Cranium scans:
Rhythmic chains
Theta waves,
Relax’d alertness,
Daydreaming!
Hey Sleepwalkers
COP28 furnace goers!
Fossil fuel HEAT
Discombobulator,
Wreck’d Mother’s clock,
Seasonal untimedness,
Plants rousing
Four times faster,
Insect pollinators sleeping in.
Dead windowsill housefly,
Ghostly halo
Tiny white spores,
Death trap!
Insect invaded,
Brain co-opted
Highest perch possible,
Sporerific launching pad,
“Come one, come all,”
Delectable flies!
Tidal breaths,
Bidirectional mammals,
Inhale air
Backtracking exhale.
Like car dead-ending,
Up-street reversing.
Twenty twenty-two
Late-September
Timor-Leste coastline,
Royal Blue Highnesses
Scrawny starvin’,
Newbornless pods.
Sea of Siracusa
Dolphin signall’d distress,
Carers Rossana/Enzo Maiorca
Traced twelve metres,
Gash’d fishery net,
Trapped kith freed!
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!
Meteorologist Guy Walton
Naming/shaming commenc’d,
Heat will kill YOU,
Comatose categories,
Fossil-fuellers finger’d!
Victorian-era diseases,
Two hundred fifty thousand
Hungry children,
Forty per cent families
Food insecure,
Bloated Commonwealth Banks!
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!
Broiling Arctic
Avarice bankers,
O’ Great Ones,
Climate firestorms
Marine bottom heatwaves
Sea ice, krill, crustaceans
Going, going, gone!
Barbaric bastards,
Bully brutes,
Finest Fins,
Bluest Blues,
Hvalur hf hoodlums
Hideously harpooning!
‘O mighty mushrooms,
Wind-makers!
Forest colonisers,
Temperature regulators,
Marvellous Ones!
Airborne spore tons
Cloud seeders,
Righteous rain-makers
Water table lifters,
Rainforest rejoicers!
Edinburgh Mountain’s
Royal Majesties,
Colossals unprotect’d,
Teal Jones, Pacheedaht,
Extinction-makers!
Hideous heat domes,
Desiccating droughts,
Gasping globe,
Forever firestorms,
Cremated creatures,
Still secrecy!
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!
What’s life’s point?
Not about job,
Not about career,
Not physical life,
Aspects of life,
Not life’s point.
True ice whales,
Colossal crowns,
Perfect strainers,
Seventeen grand metres
Sixty-four big tonnes,
Your Highnesses!
Hallelujah fish!
Glorious gratitude,
Fecund feeders,
Diligent digesters,
Alkaline-stomach’d,
Diamond defecators
Calcite crystals,
Cracking carbonates!