Record Breaking
What was seen as this green and pleasant land
Is being relentlessly bleached into straw
By desiccating sun, its dazzling glow
Frazzling all in between mountain and strand.
Our carbon abundant atmosphere acts
As a lens magnifying remorseless rays
Through unremitting procession of days,
Focusing attention on climate facts
That’re surely undeniable unless,
Of course, economic necessity
Requires oil to lubricate equity;
Then the market cannot resist the press.
As long as demand for profit exists
It’ll create naysayers and populists.
D. A.