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US Poet Laureate Ada Limón featured in National Climate Assessment
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For the first time ever, the #NationalClimateAssessment is using art to help tell the story of our #climate crisis, including a new poem from Poet Laureate Ada Limón. • Here's her reading of her poem Startlement. • STARTLEMENT • by Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress • It is a forgotten pleasure, the pleasure • of the unexpected blue-bellied lizard • skittering off his sun spot rock, the flicker • of an unknown bird by the bus stop. • To think, perhaps, we are not distinguishable • and therefore no loneliness can exist here. • Species to species in the same blue air, smoke— • wing flutter buzzing, a car horn coming. • So many unknown languages, to think we have • only honored this strange human tongue. • If you sit by the riverside, you see a culmination • of all things upstream. We know now, • we were never at the circle’s center, instead • all around us something is living or trying to live. • The world says, What we are becoming, we are • becoming together. • The world says, One type of dream has ended • and another has just begun. • The world says, Once we were separate, • and now we must move in unison. • • U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón featured in National Climate Assessment • #climatechange #news #poet • ++++++++++++++++++++++Get To Know Us • To those who love Earth, and all life sharing it with us. To those awestruck by its beauty, who seek to understand its mysteries, who delight in its wonders and want to experience it in all its glory. And to those who fight for its future, who want to learn more so they can do more to save, preserve and protect it. • We understand because we’re just like you. • We’re Pattrn. • Our planet is changing, right before our eyes. • Our mission is to explore, inform, engage and revel in the patterns of our amazing planet. • Come join us. • https://www.pattrn.com
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