Global warming – Sarah Potter Writes

Monday Morning #Haiku 202 — Lockdown Sky

Breathe deep. Look skyward.
Nature reclaims the airways.
Forget-me-not blue.

Vapour cLouds up high...
we scribble the world's future
with metal crayons.

Materialised
overnight, huge lump of coal
in garden border.
Inked carbon slick with rainfall,
December too warm for snow.

Genre: Post-apocalyptic science fiction
Word Count: 100

ART INSTALLATION, AD 2316

Welcome to the tri-centenary celebration of life on Old Earth.

Item 1: Wooden desk, whitened with paint to disguise the murder of a tree.

Item 2: Plastic writing implements to poison the oceans and scribble out fish.

Item 3: Metal paperclips to imprison tree-paper.

Item 4: Sticky substance to glue tree-paper to tree-paper.

Item 5: Two soft toys…

“Mother, what are they?”

“They’re birds called penguins. They used to inhabit the South Pole of Old Earth before it boiled.”

“Are those two the only ones we rescued?”

“No, my child, there were real living penguins…”

“Without deflector shields, you mean?”

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