SHINING
FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA
It’s December 9th 17 days ’til xmas It’s 10 Celsius
Squirrel with white belly approaches me confused +
hungry Where are all the buds+cherries +apples?
Where are the stoned hipsters on plaid blankets feeding
him delicacies?
Sun twinkles watery-gold close 2nd to washed out suns at
Turner show A.G.O. If the global temperature rises by 1.5 C
swaths of Canada will be under water And if the global temp
rises by 4.0 C at least 144.7 million people in China will be
submerged
A man with a bushy grey pony (or is it a donkey?) inches closer
to me He says: what with urban encroachment farmland is
rapidly disappearing eh And in several weeks 25,000 Syrian
refugees will be scattered across the land Many are hesitant to
come A desert people clinging to old parents in airport lounges
preparing for ice+snow
*see The Weather Network for tips on how to: Bundle Up for -26 C
(-56 with windchill)
My own immigrant ancestors came from from freezing steppes ate
only root vegetables for 8 months of the year: Dad why did they have
to stop here? Couldn’t they have gone all the way to B.C. where the
islands are warm+lush filled with fabulous Canadian flora+fauna?
Though in the end maybe it’s a good thing they stayed away from either
coast as when temperatures rise we will lose Vancouver+Halifax Moncton
may remain Now the Albino squirrel grown quite skeletal since Halloween
falls from a naked Oak upon my naked knee Won’t someone kiss my Dopamine?
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Winter 2015
songanddancegirl 