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“The majority of the burning has come in the last 25 years — since the premiere of Seinfeld. Since the end of the second world war, the figure is about 85%. The story of the industrial world’s kamikaze mission is the story of a single lifetime.” The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells, 2019
The wind patterns woven in the waves,
the mountains reflected in the pool at sunrise
the brightness of flowers among the meadow grass.
Surely, the way we live and love,
surely, they are thus.
But the summer heat has come
and the mountains, like the shore in fog, fade
to a phantom shade of grey
lost in the fine white haze.
I listen, but what I hear
is what isn’t said.
Along the street,
dust shifts sullenly,
stirred by events that are yet to pass.
Something is coming,
already on its way.
Somewhere, in cracks and corners,
the silent spaces are filled with wild
and quiet is not alone.
