Thursday, October 12, 2017

Bad Trip on Orange Sunshine
















Mordor!
I had important business
and went out without
finding first a breathing mask




Yikes!
 a word I use more and more these days
also like,
Wow 


Tuesday night
the siege of smoke under way
those orange clouds
composed of choking smoke





White towel
turning yellow-orange
in the frightening light





Alien sunlight





Difficult to capture
how orange
and dire the light was
the sky clouded with smoke







Silver turns
 red gold





Frantic radio broadcasts
advise staying indoors
with the windows shut,
update the devastation
in Santa Rosa in Calistoga
the grim predictions
stricken voices of evacuees




Redrum
Redder and redder







The Inferno
of everyday life







Darkness fell on the State
 more warnings of wind
all-pervading smoke hung on
like a disturbing dream
of losing hope






Groundhog Day

EPA chief declares
the war on coal is over





10-11 October 2017



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