As the Waters Rise O God, look down On all our drowned. Hear us, we beg— We’re on our knees. Sorry, so sorry About the trees, The polar bears, the birds, The bees; the icebergs Gone, the thirsty lawns, Plastic gyres, redwood Pyres and all the many, many cars. The eclipsed stars We never see. [...]
By Emily Hockaday the sky becomes apocalyptic. The air is wool in my throat. I wear a mask to pick my daughter up from school. The fruit vendors sit next to their colorful carts like the world isn’t ending, and I suppose it isn’t for now or it is just very slowly. And what did [...]
By Lucille Ausman he is out extinguishing wild fires lost in the smoke digging lines in the ground trying to trap her behind the wall before she can reach him suffocating in her fury he's strong and brave and all American I guess but she doesn't want protecting she doesn't want to cool down and [...]
