This is not not a rondine

Poem for the week, 23 January 2023

 

 

 

 

This is not not a rondine

Earth is burning. Choked by smoke, torn by storms,
deniers clog the web and airwaves saying
this is normal, this is fine; lies we're paying
through the nose and throat for.  Truth transforms
from fact to Wonderland on news platforms.
Moguls make bank; it's us they're betraying.
Earth is burning.

Outside our media studios, future forms
itself as cyclones, wildfires, locust swarms:
rough beasts from fiction intent on staying
here, the real and now, and they're not playing.
Earth is burning.

from The awkward geometry of a warming oblate spheroid (buy here)