The Wordsmith's Forge

This poem came out of conversation with Dreamwidth user Dialecticdreamer.  It also fills the "authority figures" square in my 5-22-14 card for the Origfic Bingo fest.  It has been selected in an audience poll as the free epic for the September 2, 2014 Poetry Fishbowl reaching the $200 goal.

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This poem came out of the June 3, 2014 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from alexseanchai and siliconshaman. It has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. This poem belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.

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Here's an article about areas affected by rising seas due to climate change.  

The topographical analysis sounds about right, although I will add that while areas up to 10 feet above current levels will be submerged, storm activity will make quite a lot more space beyond that unsafe to inhabit.  Remember the storms are getting bigger!  

Also, completely ignore the handpatting about how this will take a long time to happen.  Timespans of change are being underestimated by whole orders of magnitude; things are already happening that were originally predicted for centuries in the future.  The truth is, we're breaking the atmospheric integrity in ways we know nothing about, and we cannot accurately predict the degree to which we have fucked ourselves.  My current estimate is that if you live within daytrip distance of a coast, it would probably be prudent to move inland.

 alexconall has written "so small" based on my prompt for the current call.  It's a beautiful, meditative poem about water, land, and other resources on Earth.  And it's all written in kinetic imagery.  If you ever need to explain environmentalism to a touch-dominant person, use this.

 This is not the first evacuation due to environmental foreclosure, nor will it be the last.  China has abandoned villages because of its changing climate, primarily drought.  How many?  About 24,000 over the last 50 years.

This poem is spillover from the March 18, 2014 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from siliconshaman and kestrels_nest. It also fills the "sand" square on the Spring and Autumn Bingo public card. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.

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... described in several languages.

Let the nerdgasm commence.

Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.

I hear you, bro.  I've been saying many of the same things, since I was a wee toddler in the 1970's.  Nobody ever fuckin' listens.

 Snow rollers are a fascinating phenomenon.  We had some here a few years ago.  I'd never heard of them.  I figured out how they must have formed by examining the evidence.  That was fun.

I wrote this story for a fat-positive contest last year, although the voting eventually stalled out with some finalists selected but no winner(s) announced. Recently I went back to the story in light of my new Terramagne setting, and it fits that very nicely. Here, then, is a team of fat superheras of assorted ethnicity. The story has been sponsored by an anonymous donor and I'll be posting it in sections.

Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

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