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case of climate catastrophe?
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
16 Oct 2019
case of climate catastrophe?
case of climate catastrophe?

frantic footprints are framed 
on white streets where the
temperature suddenly
dropped 
from 
83 
to 
13

there is no normal now…
they left home in tank tops, 
flip-flops, shorts and short sleeve shirts…
but in the blink of an eye—chattering teeth,
shivering shoulders caught out…
trudge home to hoodies, down
jackets, boots—cursing this
Chinese
hoax!!

© 2019. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

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