CC photo
By
Penn Kemp
Studies in Extreme
A summer of fire versus water,
trees and seas crying aloud and
orca mother drops her dead calf.
Attribution Science lets us know
that improbable events are twice
as likely, given human influence.
The signal of human intervention
exacerbated by rising temperature.
Risks are up even at local levels.
While Souwesto is inundated in
thunderstorms and rivers are high,
forests are flaming north and west.
People may be burnt out because
the future feels distant, but we are
already affected. This exceptional
hot summer will become the norm
unless we act on working solutions
now. Climate change is changing us.
Mary McDonald photo
Penn Kemp
Penn Kemp is the author most recently of Fox Haunts (Aeolus House, 2018) and Local Heroes (Insomniac Press, 2018). New eco-poems, including her multimedia collaboration with artist Mary McDonald on www.riverrevery.ca, will be published as River Revery (Insomniac Press, 2019). Quattro Books has published two other works, Barbaric Cultural Practice, and an anthology Penn edited, Jack Layton: Art in Action.
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