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Yellowknife!
Vortical over both Vancouvers
Are sunbeams in Canadian red
On wildfire maneuvers
Announcing ecosystems newly dead.
Oh sure, it's that time of the year
And Old Smokey The Bear had warned us well
That match play may convert a biosphere
From the freshest heaven into ash heap hell.
All throughout the glory of the west
True Grit skies are now Abaddon rose
As if by massive Bunsen burner test
An iron war god spectre bellicose...
Looms like a gothic laboratory curse,
Consigning doom...like a refueled hearse!
Are sunbeams in Canadian red
On wildfire maneuvers
Announcing ecosystems newly dead.
Oh sure, it's that time of the year
And Old Smokey The Bear had warned us well
That match play may convert a biosphere
From the freshest heaven into ash heap hell.
All throughout the glory of the west
True Grit skies are now Abaddon rose
As if by massive Bunsen burner test
An iron war god spectre bellicose...
Looms like a gothic laboratory curse,
Consigning doom...like a refueled hearse!
Published 21st Aug 2023
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21st Aug 2023 00:33am
Oof. One of my clients is in Flathead Valley Montana, and a small town only a few miles from them is being abandoned due to wildfires. It's horrible everywhere it seems. You've captured it perfectly.
21st Aug 2023 00:46am
21st Aug 2023 1:47am
Yes; it does. My client said in all her almost 70 years, she has never seen it this close. . .they have over 500 livestock. God help them if something happens.
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21st Aug 2023 2:29am
This made me so sad, starting with the part about both Vancouvers. When I lived in Portland, my boyfriend lived in a condo on the Columbia river in Vancouver, WA. When I lived in Bellingham and Blaine, I loved visiting Vancouver, BC.
Your words are magnificently crafted as always. I just wish it was not all true.
Your words are magnificently crafted as always. I just wish it was not all true.
21st Aug 2023 2:59am
I've lived in Vancouver (Wa.) My whole life and the summer skies have been bad for about ten years now.
They were almost never like this before that.
They were almost never like this before that.
26th Aug 2023 4:34pm
OMG Yes!
these wildfires are terrible.
And scary.
And devastating in every sense of the word.
We're living with them every year too over here in Portugal
where summer is no longer associated with "the living is easy... and the cotton high"
Summer, in our new language, is now called "fire season"
when you don't dare go away, want to stay home, just in case you need to get evacuated
ironically, in sync with me writing these words after a lovely late lunch in our favourite restaurant 'O Figo Preto' a familiar tune oozes out of the speakers...
Summer Time... fish are jumping...
reminding me, that times is still relatively easy for us over here.
A cool breeze blowing in from the sun drenched terrace, and even a little rain on the horizon forecast.
The worst of summer is over soon thank God for another year.
Very well captured.
these wildfires are terrible.
And scary.
And devastating in every sense of the word.
We're living with them every year too over here in Portugal
where summer is no longer associated with "the living is easy... and the cotton high"
Summer, in our new language, is now called "fire season"
when you don't dare go away, want to stay home, just in case you need to get evacuated
ironically, in sync with me writing these words after a lovely late lunch in our favourite restaurant 'O Figo Preto' a familiar tune oozes out of the speakers...
Summer Time... fish are jumping...
reminding me, that times is still relatively easy for us over here.
A cool breeze blowing in from the sun drenched terrace, and even a little rain on the horizon forecast.
The worst of summer is over soon thank God for another year.
Very well captured.
27th Aug 2023 1:59am
Wasn't it just last year that Portugal was in the headlines for wildfire?
We are lucky to be in a subdivision with lots of streets for firebreaks, but it's still no guarantee. The more rural the greater the risk.
We are lucky to be in a subdivision with lots of streets for firebreaks, but it's still no guarantee. The more rural the greater the risk.
