" Growing Threats "...

" Growing Threats "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Growing threats
bring home hope
as preparations "to go"

new tests showing
being set into motion
like spewing volcanoes

magma pouring
down slopes
so-called pyro-
clastic flows

consuming
millions of pests
like mosquitoes

over vast plains
of unfrozen oceans
downstream
of oxygen-depleting
green algae

blooming profusely
in renegade
wastewater outbreaks

openly set ablaze
heightening
complications

with warm embraces
of climate change
copping to trepidations
of immersive stages
from spiking
cancer rates

in blunt statements
tending to disintegrate
stipulating release
on "good behavior"

by noted hall of famers
having finished pitching
in lopsided games
while charging
into home plate...