Take out all the stray
dioxide and pump it straight
into solid ground.
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Poetry by Wade Kwon
haiku for 6/11/2023
Take out all the stray
dioxide and pump it straight
into solid ground.
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haiku for 5/4/2023
Hurricanes, fires,
droughts, rain showers, heat waves, floods,
blizzards, tornadoes.
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haiku for 10/2/2022
The weather tells us
in hurricanes and heat waves:
Climate change is real.
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haiku for 7/2/2022
Air conditioners
unable to match summer
blasts of brutal heat.
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haiku for 10/15/2021
Why aren’t we making
a bigger deal out of the
risks of climate change?
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haiku for 4/22/2021
Getting hotter and
hotter, maybe this world is
some other world’s hell.
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haiku for 11/9/20
Unbreakable codes,
hieroglyphs, nail polish shades,
semaphores, Klingon.
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haiku for 9/6/20
Each hurricane brought
fewer relief trucks in the
nation’s new climate.
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haiku for 2/21/20
We owe ourselves the
right to clean air and water
on a fixed planet.
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haiku for 12/8/19
The rising tides mean
everyone gets beachfront homes
eventually.
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