Turn the atmospheric convection oven
to a slowly increasing simmer.
Melt the glaciers and ice caps
to a flooding gruel. Stir tens of millions
displaced humans and expiring species
with increasing tornados and hurricanes.
Sip slowly this bitter broth.
(Published in Down in the Dirt Magazine - July,2007)
Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/earth-stew/
