There is a Planet
where each batter hits a home run every time,
all children write like Shakespeare,
women put Earth-women to shame,
men put Earth-men to shame.
The only problem, and it’s a big one,
is there is no breath, pulse, heartbeat,
or real weather in anyone there,
and a power outage or computer virus
erases everything as if it never existed.
Biography
Scott T. Starbuck’s Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog at riverseek.blogspot.com has 57,000 views from 94 countries. His book of climate poems Hawk on Wire was a July 2017 “Editor’s Pick” at Newpages.com along with The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, and was selected from over 1,500 books as a 2018 Montaigne Medal Finalist sponsored by Eric Hoffer Awards for “the most thought-provoking books.” He has given ecopoetry workshops at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in UC San Diego Masters of Advanced Studies Program in Climate Science and Policy (MAS CSP), and 2018 Annual California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC).
© 2020 Scott Starbuck, used by permission
