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Ovid on Climate Change by Eliza Griswold | Poetry Magazine

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Bastard, the other boys teased him,

Share Bastard, the other boys teased him, till Phaethon unleashed the steeds of Armageddon. He couldn’t hold their reins. Driving the sun too close to earth, the boy withered rivers, torched Eucalyptus groves, until the hills burst into flame, and the people’s blood boiled through the skin. Ethiopia, land of burnt faces. In a boy’s rage for a name, the myth of race begins. Notes: Read the Q&A with Eliza Griswold about this poem . Source: Poetry (December 2012)

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