Jem

My Cousin WhatsApps Me From Costa Rica

Williams AZ. iphone 14 Pro Max iColorama app

My cousin WhatsApps me from Costa Rica…

…My family is calling because

I’m in Oklahoma, which, to them, is synonym for tornado.

Te amo, I say as my cousin lowers the phone for our grandmother

and can’t recognize all these new skies.

to hear. She’s scared because she’s lived in the town for 80 years

— Jacob Shores-Arguello from poem The “Change” in Climate Change

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