{"id":315,"date":"2015-05-01T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/wp\/wp\/sea-level-rise-blog\/sea-rise-a-poem\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T01:18:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T01:18:32","slug":"sea-rise-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/sea-rise-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea-Rise, a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sea-Rise<\/strong> by John Englander<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-314\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Glaciers%20ending%20in%20bay_B8R4710-Hamiltonbuka%2C%20Svalbard%2C%20Arctic.jpg\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 300px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin:0 0 0 10px;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent3\">In Greenland, Antarctica, and beyond<br \/>\n\tthe ice is melting into rivers<br \/>\n\tgiant glaciers gradually soften<br \/>\n\tgravity guides them surely to sea<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent3\">Inexorable, unstoppable<br \/>\n\twe are impotent to halt the rivers of ice<br \/>\n\ttwo hundred thousand in number<br \/>\n\tmostly beyond our sight and mind<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent3\">Unseen but in control of our coastal world<br \/>\n\tfrozen waters are changing form<br \/>\n\tour ocean planet is reminding us of our place<br \/>\n\tour connection to the sea<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent3\">Steady shores lured us, invited us<br \/>\n\tto build bigger and bigger<br \/>\n\tas if we were in command.<br \/>\n\tsilly us<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent3\">We have awakened the sleeping polar giants<br \/>\n\ta sea change has just begun<br \/>\n\tthis is a new epoch<br \/>\n\twelcome to the anthropocene<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent3\">It is a revolutionary reality<br \/>\n\tthe sea is rising. slowly now<br \/>\n\tshe is giving us time to adapt<br \/>\n\tif we dare look at the future<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent3\">King tides make it clear<br \/>\n\twaters will go from feet to chin<br \/>\n\twe will emerge or be submerged<br \/>\n\tnow is the time for us to rise<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">© 2015 John Englander – Permission granted to share or post, without modification<br \/>\n\tFor Printable version, PDF download above.<br \/>\n\tCreated during my Rauschenberg Residency<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea-Rise by John Englander In Greenland, Antarctica, and beyond the ice is melting into rivers giant glaciers gradually soften gravity guides them surely to sea Inexorable, unstoppable we are impotent to halt the rivers of ice two hundred thousand in number mostly beyond our sight and mind Unseen but in control of our coastal world,<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sea-level-rise"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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