from if not for this (2018). upon recent news of the record-setting wildfire in the Amazon.
I miss the days
when Amazon
did not refer
to a deluge of deals
delivered to your door
whose expense
is hard to quantify
and easy to consume
somewhere else–
its harm falls
somewhere
imperceptible
we in the north
see its namesake
as elsewhere
another hemisphere
which may as well
be another planet
our daily actions
slowly (ever more quickly)
asphyxiating
the lungs of the world
you are not what you buy
are you?
or are you?
you are
what you
abide
narinda heng 