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PBS Climate Change Poem
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Date: May 07, 2015 11:58PM
Listen to Hoa Nguyen read “No Sleep” from her collection, “Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008.” When Nguyen wrote the poem, she had two young children (hence the title), and she was reading about how climate change affects certain species and weather patterns.
No Sleep
No sleep no sleep escape
Milk raining down
turning lilies white
Mena presided over moon-blood
Her offerings: young puppies
that still sucked their mother
Formaldehyde in the sheets
to be wrinkle-free
April 2006 5X the average in tornadoes
and thriving poison ivy
The sky turns green
Old Roger has died and gone to his grave
gone to his grave gone to his grave
Old Roger has died and gone to his grave
Hiegh ho gone to his grave
“Several ice-sheets in Greenland
have doubled their rate of slide”
My boy blows a plastic whistle (parrot-shaped)
stamped Made in China
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/hoa-nyugen-reads-her-poem-no-sleep/
No Sleep
No sleep no sleep escape
Milk raining down
turning lilies white
Mena presided over moon-blood
Her offerings: young puppies
that still sucked their mother
Formaldehyde in the sheets
to be wrinkle-free
April 2006 5X the average in tornadoes
and thriving poison ivy
The sky turns green
Old Roger has died and gone to his grave
gone to his grave gone to his grave
Old Roger has died and gone to his grave
Hiegh ho gone to his grave
“Several ice-sheets in Greenland
have doubled their rate of slide”
My boy blows a plastic whistle (parrot-shaped)
stamped Made in China
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/hoa-nyugen-reads-her-poem-no-sleep/