“Anthropogenic.” Human Caused,
a great word recognized by spell check.
Heat flow, energy flow,
modern era of Climate Science.
Try to describe snow-ice feedback,
sea-ice loss. Polar bears in a sweat.
Men in tank tops hunt walrus.
Sunlight on gas, arctic sweating,
the plains and prairies in a boil.
Mid May, record heat in Canada,
black smoke snakes as far as Ohio.
Formula: # acres burned—
proportional to # carbon emissions.
Coyotes wily as ever slip into homes
through doggie doors. Advertisement:
red paint covers our blue-green globe,
sticky phalange suffocates. Early advice:
“Don’t touch what doesn’t belong to you!”
