11/6/2019 POETRY: TRYNNE DELANEYCLIMATE ANXIETY our grocery store is out of tofu in Calgary o town that runs on beef & crude oil understocked soy blocks a sign of hope when we’re usually just coughing our way out of smoke this time of year instead the amazon’s burning for profit and everyone’s so scared of death they forget some of us will survive The End— mass extinction doesn’t happen in a day! yap the dinosaur jaws compressing below us and if climate change is getting you down you can send a gif of Jeff Goldblum through a server system that will burn as much fuel as the airline industry by 2020 it’s all pretty bleak but you know, uh, life, uh, finds a way Trynne Delaney is a Black/EuroSettler queer living as an uninvited guest on Treaty 7 territory. She's currently completing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. You can catch her bundled up like a 7 layer burrito watching the river and waiting for another chinook.
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