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January 20, 2006

Signs and portents

Eleanor Nesbitt was inspired by our climate coverage to send Eye the following verse –

Future signs

After two thousand years
our futures lie
in entrails again

Our liver scansd,
our lung X-rays
inform our plans.

The flight of birds
now augurs not
our futures only
but the Earth’s.

Too late we note
the plight of polar bears
and dare not hope
they lie.

January 20, 2006

Signs and portents

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