It's Still Life

Shifting

Blackberries
in the hedgerows,

a month early.
Again.

And still,
there’s a man
who says
these changes
are the greatest
con ever.

Meanwhile:

Canada burns,
Spain burns,
France burns,
Crete burns,

Wales smokes,
Suffolk
takes flame,

and sixty thousand
press against a border,
spill into Ceuta,

entering
what we still call
safe.

The berries ripen.
The fires answer.

And we
argue with weather.

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BBC: disaster in the making at Ceuta. Some images created with Midjourney.©Misky 2006-2026.