Com l’any passat, m’adhereixo al Blog Action Day o Dia de l'Acció Blocaire (http://www.blogactionday.org/) que enguany està dedicat al canvi climàtic. La meva petita contribució és aquest poema de Carrie Etter, nascuda a Normal, a l'estat nord-americà d'Illinois.
The forecast forma part del llibre Feeling the pressure, un recull de poemes sobre el canvi climàtic que va ser publicat el 2008 pel British Council de Suïssa i que, si voleu, podeu descarregar-vos aquí en format pdf.
The Forecast
‘What’s the weather in Normal?’ I asked Dad
every time I called home.
Hometown as axis and norm –
I liked the sound of it.
Every time I called home,
he’d relate, first, the usual stats.
I liked the sound of it,
the run of numbers: temp, precip, dew point.
He’d relate, first, the usual stats
and move on to weather patterns
derived from the run of numbers –
El Niño, La Niña, climate change.
Moving on to weather patterns,
he spent more and more time reading reports
about El Niño, La Niña, climate change,
and began to see to his daughters’ future.
Spending more and more time on reports,
hometown as axis and norm,
he began to see his daughters’ future.
What’s the weather in Normal? I don’t ask.
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D'entre les moltes funcions que diuen que té la poesia, una ha de ser sempre, per força, la de recollir les pors i els sentiments de culpes de la societat que la nutreix.
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