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Rebecca Stonehill lives in Norwich where she writes historical fiction and award-winning poetry and teaches creative writing. This year she was awarded Backlash Press's Best Book Award for her non-fiction work, The Sky Within - A Memoir of Sleep, which is published later this year. 

 

only that it’s becoming unmanageable;

that much, only, do I know.

And more than knowing – 

I feel it, in the corals bleaching and leaching

of colour, in the thud of trunks as they

hit the floor of ancient forests,

in the vapour trails that crisscross the skies

like angry scars,

in the face of the child who stands

waist deep in swirling water,

in the soft marrow of my bones,

I feel it.

 

Leaders clutch details in

tight fists, declaring code red on humanity 

while continuing to stall like an infant

on wobbly legs, but I feel it in the

fracking, the extracting, the screaming,

the demeaning, in the losses and

the tossing aside of the pleas

of those already suffering and as we

burn and turn our eyes towards

one of the first chemical

compounds we learnt in science 

 

at primary school, we listen

as rhetoric bubbles and spews

like smoke-blackened exhaust

fumes from a truck

and we know that it is up to

us who must pause 

and breathe, breathe and pause.

 

And Act.

 

CALL TO ACTION:

Get involved with local, grassroots environmental initiatives. Tend to and care for your local waterways, hedgerows, woodlands or wildlife, feel empowered by this and watch as the ripple effects grow.

 

Rebecca Stonehill lives in Norwich where she writes historical fiction and award-winning poetry and teaches creative writing. This year she was awarded Backlash Press’s Best Book Award for her non-fiction work, The Sky Within – A Memoir of Sleep, which is published later this year.