ENVIRONMENTAL Poem: Apparent Serenity, by Jungwoo Kaden Lee

At the end of summer, only a short time
before back-to-school sales began,
I saw an early and intrepid oak leaf lay
fallen, a hero, under its tree of origin.
Its left-behind brethren, sat, sussured
breezily in the comfort of their trees.
They might have lamented a lack
of hands to grab a silently screaming
face or swirling stars if they could,
but have entertained horrifically thoughts
in the face of their own imminent
seasonal mortality. Soon they will fall
in a variety of colors, and will end in
a multitude of anthropogenic ways;
crumbling crispy, charred charcoal black,
marred by a soot-laden grey sky,
reflecting an unholy glow,
a result of industrialism run amok
in an endless chase of profit over climate.

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