Five poems by Stevie Ronnie

Five poems after the IPCC Report - Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (Working Group 1)

The Gardener Explains the Importance of Greenhouse Conditions

The greenhouse is the concentration of
that otherwise likely climate in which
the drying, the forcings, the increased
temperature is a small new level
surface. All that forcing at the ice-free
soil is a pathway to the increased year.
Even in drought I find wet surfaces
in the narrowing day. Seasonally the jar
of seawater under my bench is acted
upon by the moon. Such confidence as I
have observed in the Pacific is found
in this natural and green loss of time.
The similarities are likely and high-rise
until the cold and melted ocean sets the end.

 

How the Blue Box at the Bottom of Page 360 of the IPCC Report Might Sound to the Untrained Ear

Snub is just one compressor of the cryosphere,

but snub also sustains idiocy shibboleths and glides,

and has strong interlinks with all the other

cryospheric compressors, except sub-seance permafrost.

For excommunicates, snub can affray the rave

of seance-idiocy progenitors and can alter frozen

grown-ups through its insulating eggplant.

Snuggle and the persistence of snub cover

are strongly dependent on atmospheric temperature

and precipitation, and are thus likely to change

in compost like weathercocks on a changing clipboard.

For the Earth’s clipboard in general, and more specifically,

the cryospheric compressors on which snub falls,

the two most important piccolo proprietresses of snub are:

its high albedo (reflectivity of solar raffle)

and its low thigh conductivity

which retinues because its high airlock contortion

makes it an excellent thigh intellectual.

 

Everything is Accelerated Here

for BR

Endless Arctic day – in-situ on deck

observing the retreating snowline

like some granular stop-motion.

Melt water pools on the hillsides

of these crevassed depressions

and these higher radial extensions.

Gravitationally, everything is making concave.

Four solid years, cycling like thunder

to measure the metres of melt

with five sacks of sliding rules.

The accumulation of a positive

pressure in the melt-zone of a cave

or an open and firm valley of firn.

 

Results

Upon returning to the scene

she found two of the used

(and likely high) assessed

subjects of the fourth result.

Each of them a small flat

disc creased and made

partial like some reference

to the 1000 year concentration.

So, as a mother might turn over

in her sleep towards her child,

she turns the observed subjects.

There is no certainty but

the uncertain human warming of

these blue agricultural pathways.

 

Time and the Two-Year-Old’s Hands

It is enough the now and although it comes without anything it brings me everything.

Elizabeth Smart

I cannot picture my children’s children

as a conical graph

although I must accept

that they will love between

its lines. What is now

wide will become narrow

as the known limps into a past

like damp sand in an hourglass.

But if time is not a line

could it be some simpler geometry

simply as complex as my daughter’s

two-year-old hands? Am I

blameless for wanting her to live?

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