This poem is taken from Stand 246, 23(2) November 2025 - January 2026.
Terminal Convergence
1.
At the Great Climacteric the cities of the world –
those clustered at the ocean’s unsteady brink,
those built on piles driven into the seabed
or on sandbars barely awash, those far to the north
invested by the frigid and astringent air,
...
At the Great Climacteric the cities of the world –
those clustered at the ocean’s unsteady brink,
those built on piles driven into the seabed
or on sandbars barely awash, those far to the north
invested by the frigid and astringent air,
...
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