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.