On a divided street each house a tight fit word leads to word witchery curdles milk disease in the body politic A sufficiency of verbs symphony distracts deflects no bullet pronounces no cancer cured or pond cleared of algae water relieved of stink Song draws no blood breaks no bones chants no routine of peace…

I think it was Mark Twain who once said, “There is no weather in this book.” Well, that might have worked for him, but weather is now climate and it’s in much of what I have written. I mentioned recently that two of my novels are very much a product of climate change. And this…