Red Sky at Morning
(today is World Environment Day)
We acknowledge
That we breathe
And
Do we breathe
That there is water we may treat
To drink
Because most of it’s unsafe
We could catalogue
The plant and animal
Species
We will have killed
Today
In the name of consumer
Consumption and
Development
And how large is the ozone layer
It’s been decades of
Awareness
And it could be better
The layer
Our awareness
How blue the sky
And shall we keep its blueness
Or trade
The blue of Earth for
Scarlet
Mars
Once we have finished
Here
And with what is left
Go there
C L Couch
Photo by Ryan Arnst on Unsplash
Red Sky at Morning
The Coast Guard claims
dangerous waters off the
coastlands of Northern
California
The Guard is right, of
course—and will that alter
our decisions for safety
sake
Well, I can hope so
But it seems to me that
warnings of danger mean
a challenge, a contest
to some,
even an extraordinary
holiday from which some
shall not return after
A last holiday—for some,
not me, too appealing
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