iyinîsiwin of
twister,
                                                            true
                                                    ancestor 
     funnels blood as thick as
                                             pine gum
                                       underground 
         to effervesce
                                      the prism
                                   still unborne. 
             As the scarce declare
                   emergency                                       
            
you the youth
              
emerge
           —and howl! 
              Skolstrejk 
                 för klimatet! 
                   collides
                       with clouds
                              to hurl                    
                                       infer- 
                                             no
                                               ! 
          Can your 2.7 million                    storm
          The sidewalk-coughing       crude
          Hail cacophony of honks to          flood
          Exhausted booms’
desertion           ? 
Sarah-Jean Krahn is an experimental feminist poet and the author of A Girl Who Was His House (Gothic Funk Press, 2021). She lives gratefully on Treaty 6 territory. Find her work at www.sarahjeancreates.com.

 
