After Reading About the Iceberg Waterfalls
Today I am startled again because it now appears that the
ocean will likely be free of summer ice by 2040…
—Jennifer A. Francis, Scientific American
Melting,
my heart is.
Falling.
Careening
over the edge
of what is
and what will
be.
Come with me,
friend.
The sea
is rising,
in a daughter’s dawn
of time,
to meet us.
—L.L. Barkat
(Best case scenarios place the complete disappearance of summer Arctic ice
at just 21 years out. My daughter is about to be 22.)
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