wildfire evacuation

car packed to take oldest

to camp when notifie

of level 3 evacuation

“We need to go – now!”

the two smaller boys climbed in

and they drove off, coming

west to us without preparation

without clothes, without albums

or vital papers or anything

they would not have wanted

to leave behind

if climate change is a hoax

it is well devised to create

wilder, more uncontrollable

scenes of devastation

if it is, instead, the result of human

stupidity, arrogance and greed

perhaps we can use wisdom

humbleness and far-sightedness

to bring our world back toward balance