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!
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!
Seventy-one years
Stewing northern Alberta,
Oily subsidised trillions,
Sticky sickness
Athabasca to Mackenzie Rivers
Cramm’d carcinogens,
Nauseated North Pole!
Mother Earth be damn’d:
Australian Prime Minister
Anthony Albanese, neoliberal,
Fossil fuel subsidiser
Coal mine, LNG* green-lighter,
Wolseley Road, Point Piper
Manservant!
Restoring Nature,
Impossible!
One constant process
Universal change,
The External Becoming,
Nothing is reversible!
More fracking
Seismics, drilling
Piping, poisoning
Gulf of Mexico,
Marine life
Climate, NAH!
Genial Giants,
Magnificent meadows
Grazing Gentles,
Floridian figureheads
Castaway casualties,
Dreadfully doomed!
Truth to power,
Defending Mother’s
Sacred family,
Threatened, endangered
Fauna, flora, ecosystems.
Twenty twenty-three,
Fossil fuel’d heatwaves
December thru February
Endlessly,
Fossil fuel’d droughts
Fossil fuel’d hellfires,
Chile SOS!
‘O Regal Ones
Prithee, don’t leave!
Since Two thousand sixteen,
One hundred seventy-eight
Perished
Majesties,
Forcibly disgorged,
Thirteen Atlantic states.
Days old
North Atlantic Right,
An eye blink,
Gaunt “Sea of Darkness”
Big Oil’s
Ear-splitting cannons,
Horror-struck
Doomed whales!
