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Sunday, November 25, 2018

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING

by William Marr




"Major Trump administration climate report says damage is ‘intensifying across the country.’ Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is already affecting the United States—and that it is going to be very expensive." —The Washington Post, November 23, 2018


a heart as cold and hard
as an iceberg

our warning hot air
is nothing to him
but a passing breeze


William Marr, a scientist by profession, has published 23 books of poetry and several books of translations. His poetry has been translated into more than ten languages. Some of his poems are used in high school and college textbooks in Taiwan, China, England, and Germany.