Forever seeking
Life’s clues,
Experiences
Realities
Resonances,
Inner most being.
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!
Twenty twenty-two,
Carbon ignition
Fossil fuel, wood pellet, palm oil
Record burning,
Oceans stockpiling HEAT!
Her Royal Highness,
Youthful
Innocent
Playful
Curious
Hungry
Entangled,
Rodanthe, North Carolina.
Intelligent, self-aware
Playful, empathetic
Curious, sad
Sophisticated speakers,
Joyous, compassionate
Loving grievers,
Breathtaking radar
Echolocationers,
Incomparable climate solvers,
Delightful coexisters,
The dolphins!