Paradise Unfounded

Helene was bad
What’s coming’s worse
Historic
I keep hearing
As in
Worthy of a history
And maybe someday
Someone will write about
The storms
We’ve had
And how we made them
Worse
Because of climate change
Which at last
Maybe we’ll say
Is real
As the ice shelfs melt
And habitation on the coast
Will have to move
Inland
Farther than
We had been thinking
If thinking
At all

Everything we’re using up
We’ll need
More of
And more of

Milton will take
More lives
Away
And things that were alive
Like animals and crops
Fauna and
Flora
Generally
Plus the living spirit
Of the cities
And the towns
Farms
So many places
That had energy
And
Semblances of unity
Now gone

Someone named a hurricane
Whose most famous
Name’s
Sake
Wrote most well-known
Not about regained
But how we
Lost
Anything like
Paradise

C L Couch


“Milton appears headed for Tampa, where the National Hurricane Center is warning of up to 15 feet of storm surge.”
NBC/MSN
a little more than half an hour ago

Photo by Demure Storyteller on Unsplash 
Beautiful sunset at Clearwater Beach in Tampa, Florida.
[photographer’s caption]