Lizard does recall! The Great Remembering. The Vast Cycles.
“… global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end … faces as much as 3.1C (5.6F) of warming … prevent a cascade of dangerous … hottest in recorded … 57.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide … collectively a cut of 42 … 57 percent by 2035 for any hope … 20 largest economies…” —From news agencies per UN October 2024
Time measured in the counting.
The stories they don’t tell.
The brilliant bones.
Scattered shards of light.
—DB
We suddenly discovered the sun, and we were vouchedsafed white stones and a dusky and wild body. —Anzhelina Polonskaya
Yes, we are envoys of a flat earth, our only vocabulary is antonyms. —Ostap Slyvynsky
Who needs TV drama? This is life in the volcano. This is as cold as it gets. —Meg Kearney
NOTES
—Anzhelina Polonskaya: You look… from the poem Calculator; We suddenly… from the poem Saga, both in A Voice: Selected Poems 2004. (trans from Russian by Andrew Wachtel). Anzhelina Polonskaya lives in Germany; her poems are prohibited in Russia.
—Meg Kearney from the poem Living in the Volcano in her collection Home By Now 2009.
—Kateryna Kalytko and Ostap Slyvynsky excerpts from the anthology In the Hour Of War: Poetry from Ukraine 2023, tr. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
PHOTOS Oregon’s Northern Great Basin, October 2024. Click to enlarge
Who knew? Everyone knew.
Inevitability spreads like nuclear radiation,
breaking down words …
It's easier, now, that the war has started. Easier, after all
now. How clear is our past, with its mistakes of tone,
its sincerity, its
air.
—Kateryna Kalytko