REAGENT

Born on a Northern Isle
Amidst the confluence
Of the Atlantic, the North Sea
And Bathed
In the Gulf Stream

Calved
From its Mother landmass
Less than 10,000 years ago
As melt water filled
The Channel:

I am a Weather Sensitive
Extant in this era
Of rapid climate change
But I’m OK with that:
For it is our Salvation.

Carbon Effluvia
Fills the skies.
Our Lithic footprints
Destroy habitat
And devastate natural drainage.

Yet within the sad desecration
Of the Anthropocene, the Species
Has Devised an Antidote:
Sea Level
Rise…