Climate Change Blues
My garden partner Matthew says Man what about this heat Can’t use all this Fahrenheit Kale is totally beat.
Drooping legumes, cukes, (and folks) Much more than they can bear In sun, or shade we got to own it This weather, we have to wear.
Paying the price for our carbon pride We brought on this doldrum mess It hangs around our collective necks Huge, modern day albatross.
Around our necks, nearly supine So foul it weighs us down, We drag it up to the stifling deck Leave it, jump in the brine.
Lots to think about in these few lines. It’s wonderful how gardening can bring one close to central truths. Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner is an interesting image for us twenty-first century navigators. Thank you poet with the green thumb for bringing the link to our attention.