Shipping Forecasts
We will struggle for storm names
and typhoons will be numbered
in the Northern Territories
We will enjoy sequential weather
and buy rain and shade covers
in equal measure for such events
Extremes will be downgraded to normal
They will re-define old tide charts
re-draw shorelines and flood plains
But we will suffer drought and wildfires
through months of cracks and widenings
without the squibs of English summers
From across the channel tiny migrants
will swarm in the blown air to find succour
among failing crops in Kent’s dry garden
We will struggle with Biblical excesses
and nature in the new ways of weather
which we will not be able to name