Size of a Nation's Relative Swallow
( featuring an unmentioned incident where saltwater is transported with two hands )
We are going to hold this ... the way someone would hold a grandchild's toy that broke in an unusual way ...
Greenhouse gas emissions ... take it in ... chew it ... let it go for now ...
Loss of ice ... words for something the size of a nation's swallow ...
Our métabolisme has never asked what a precious thing is before putting it away ... That's life ... one finger cannot lift a river ...
We have spent a whole practice arguing that the most pressing concerns of today should ... in some way or another ... show in our works ... That mind to hands are proved by what's remains evident ... and here comes another wild catastrophe ...
Listen ... transparent natural places are not dead ... just starving ... on a chair up funeral bed ...
Aspiration and Expectation never take a break ...
Under the ice and ground that was supposed to stay frozen hard and didn't ... On the one hand old biology is waking up and letting go what it held ... at the other hand is a rock ... weathering ... neither made the other or knows what the other is doing ...
We are the ones who name opening casts ... And here is the first thing that will not hold ...
Every year bleaching comes closer to our steps ... No one can say where the one edge ends and the next begins ...
We stood on the stage with our chisel and recited ...
Hot dry machine on a seabed removing moisture ... on a buzzing cycle ... The season runs us into the sand ... setting ...
And what about the crazy fires? ... spreading in intensity ... wild foul language also arrives ... before catching a cold draft sentence ...
And the sea's common acidic waves ... Where is the ocean in line? ... Marine and water has slipped ... Gone from the words ...
Now the itchworm and sniff ...
We told everybody more than once where we came from ... Here comes another project or should we say body scratching itself to get some relief ... A series of verticle scores is a doom list lectured behind a podium ... It felt okay for fifteen minutes ...
Broom broom ... two bristly words for what the numbers dropped ... numbers that don't add up ... sweep still ... anyway ...
Changes underway will worsen ( if they don't get better ) without urgent large-scale deployment of measures ...
Lay with it ... sleep with it ... we won't be able to solve it this month ...
