Pantoum of the We Climate Changes
A Pantoum by Adam Powers
Pantoum of the We Climate Changes
climate’s changing and so are we disrupting business as usual, we’re boundless possibilities rising like waves from the sea but if we don’t define we, we’re risking countless disrupting business as usual, we’re boundless bounding towards honest energy horizons but if we don’t define we, we’re risking countless creatures, people, memories, and environments bounding towards honest energy horizons balanced on a precarious point, again— who are we? creatures, people, memories, and environments, worlds gone and held down and still singing balanced on a precarious point, again— who are we? to listen to care to act to repair to flow as free worlds gone and held down and still singing climate’s changing and so are we.
— Adam Powers
About the Form: the Pantoum
For the uninitiated, a Pantoum is a poetic form which repeating certain lines in a cyclical rotation (“a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza. The last line of a pantoum is often the same as the first.”). Typically, the form envelopes multiple meanings of similar lines in the rotation when re-situated against new lines. It'll be easier to see in practice than for me to describe, so check out these other inspired Pantoums: Cashpoint by Oliver Tearle | pantoum for aiyana & not a single hashtag by Aurielle Marie | Pantoum for Postpartum by Brittany Rogers.