Issue #39 takes us up to the skies, down into the soil, through blood and water streams, and along tidelines. We watch the poetic stagnation of parliamentary inaction, hear the resonance of forebears and take in the revolution of birth. Through fire danger, dwindling water supplies and the swift creep of heat, the weather of CLIMATE reveals its tangled systems.
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Comic titled ‘The Military Industry Will Save Us’ for The Suburban Review #39: CLIMATE issue by Sofia Sabbagh.
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Cover art of The Suburban Review #39: CLIMATE by Lauren Barton. A painting of two crabs in portrait orientation, facing one another from above and below.
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Say, the wallabies—flaxen dawn ephemera—and the fire danger always sitting in the low-end red. Acacia silent & yolky, lighting up gold in the margins. / Kelpie soft-jawed and slack in sleep. First bike—training wheels and the rest—rusting red dust / brief-like / tin ripple water tanks and this heat. The kind that makes you cry.
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Shut my eyes in hope I might see them, / red gold, pray my imagination might / summon them, collude with my / daughter to plant new seeds, grow new / forests, water them with our tears. / Dream a new beginning, one for our / descendants. A cedar renaissance. Like I / say, water is life.
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To be added…lose an ocean—she’s / still there: the water, the salt / the slime, the rocks / washed / latte scum / in a rockpool fish / or bits of bio-compostable / red-dyed takeaway cup gull / ravaged and left to rot
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