sickly-sweet scent
is it the hyacinths in bloom?
or a rotting corpse
© Rachel Green February 2025
I would be remiss if I did not state
the irony of a four lane highway
cut through the Amazon forest of late
for climate speakers to have their say.
The COP30 conference in Belém
cuts through the former Amazon floor
paving over wetland, causing mayhem
an eight-mile long and festering sore.
Rainforest towers on either side
of fresh-cleared land and piles of logs
opening the region for business to slide
in former carbon-devouring bogs.
World leaders will neither know nor care
for the forest that once was in their care.
© Rachel Green February 2025
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