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North American Cardinal, Heard in the Attica Zoo, Greece.
"blue lamp in the witch house"
tentative touchdown · mandolin intro
Mulciber eerie · riddle of the bluefin
minor character · in some murder tale
conceited & sad · on the putting green
shrunken knurl · wishkebab
thrown at random · with no cars parting
the old castle crumbles · at broad noon
we touch wonderingly · on the way elsewhere
in my sleep vision · i beheld ending
that tangerine monster · who eclipses Godzilla
& such joy spilled · that at once i woke
in a curdling world · that calls itself future
"And that is what the difference consists in."
"The 1878 El Niño caused widespread crop failures, floods and epidemics on a global scale. In parts of the planet, crops were scorched by intense drought. In other zones, the rain hit with such a ferocity that entire regions were washed away.
Weather upheaval caused the death of 50 million people around the world. This represented as much as three to four percent of the global population.
Follow-up weather chaos between 1896 and 1900 caused mass famines and widespread outbreaks of cholera, plague, and malaria. As many as 30 million died.
Mike Davis, in his book Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño, Famine and the Making of the Third World, writes that these events were so catastrophic that they broke apart many social/political systems and left large parts of the world susceptible to the rise of gunboat diplomacy and the emergence of what became known as the Third World." —Charlie Angus via
"The deeper they conceal him—the more remote the cell, the smaller the cell, the colder and stonier the walls of the cell—the more vivid and living is the writer."
