The moon shines
into the dirty desert air
with a rusty opal halo —
Scorpius has lost his way
behind the thin clouds,
city glare, smoke, dust —
His heart shines in some far
better place — but not here
in this smoggy summer.
solastalgia
emotional or existential distress caused by negative environmental changes to one’s home environment, often described as feeling homesick while still at home; coined by Glenn Albrecht, it denotes the loss of solace, identity, and sense of place resulting from ecological degradation
Flux capacity
Nature and wildlife
are gradually vanishing
like in the photograph
from Back to the Future —
our future is vanishing too
but we have no hundred
and thirty horsepower
gas-fired time machine
to go back and fix it.