Tag: climate. change
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Extinction
Gray wolves howl invisible on the granite shorelinewaiting for the sea’s answer-standing tall on the headland,against a wind that allows no trees,signatures the stones with ageless storms—howling to know why this once lush placewhere endless fields of poppy intertwined with pineis now defaced with crops of suburban homes.Above, a falcon startled from its rocky perch…
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Irreversible
The oceans recede,its pylons exposed.The great elephants rust in the junkyard they fell when Chukwa shifted.Even his severed legs can’t hold up the earth-sky.The sea grass stiffensto a verdant wave,curl exposing the horizon.The ivory house built on the beach(the one with the bench in back where children playedand the family picnicked,the one with the red…