Tag Archives: destruction

What it was like

What it was like to be here at the end, sun rising red in the smoke of another wildfire, this burning world: the destruction of innocents, the ascendance of demagogues, the rapacious appetites of the worst among us. What it was like to speak to a vanishing posterity, disembodied generations blind to Nature,  deaf to […]

When you can

If you could, you would feed the birds of Kyiv, of Mariupol, the pipits and larks, the warblers and wagtails lost in the suffocating skies over scorched trees in which they once slept and nested. If you could, you would shelter the martens and voles, the hares and dormice who fled cratered homes, the incendiary […]