Environmental Collapse
I kept it cool
through the catalog of plastics,
the elephant slaughter,
the water-is-life audience chorus,
the praise and please,
audience chorus at
one finger
two fingers,
the remote wars
and famines,
the one fish
two fish
no fish
dissonance.
But the song of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō got me:
the mating call
of the only
one left.
About the Author: Dolo Diaz is a scientist / poet with roots in Spain, currently residing in California. Her work has appeared in ONE ART, The Summerset Review, Third Wednesday, Dog Throat Journal, among others. Website: dolodiaz.com.
Image Credit: John Gerrard Keulemans “Adult and juvenile Moho braccatus” Public domain image courtesy of Wikimedia
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