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Volume 11 Number 1, April 2010

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LIGHT GREEN

 

I'm writing with a light green pencil

because it's time to learn to say Eyjafjallajökull

and hope that something good can come out of this

 

as when Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815 causing the year without

summer in 1816 and Lord Byron came up

with a contest to keep his guests occupied at Lake Geneva

 

Or, as when Lakagigur (Iceland, again), beginning in 1783,

spread famine across Europe and the final straw of failed harvests

broke open a world of brotherhood

 

The earth wants rid of pressures, humans and their systems too

Katla (or something bigger) may be awaiting its turn, airlines may collapse

but I hope we can learn to fly more in line with the earth

- P.K. Brask