<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Love in a Time of Climate Change<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">recycling Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"</i></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don't love you as if you were rare earth metals,</div><div class="">conflict diamonds, or reserves of crude oil that cause</div><div class="">war. I love you as one loves the most vulnerable</div><div class="">species: urgently, between the habitat and its loss.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I love you as one loves the last seed saved</div><div class="">within a vault, gestating the heritage of our roots,</div><div class="">and thanks to your body, the taste that ripens</div><div class="">from its fruit still lives sweetly on my tongue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I love you without knowing how or when this world</div><div class="">will end. I love you organically, without pesticides.</div><div class="">I love you like this because we'll only survive</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">in the nitrogen rich compost of our embrace,</div><div class="">so close that your emissions of carbon are mine,</div><div class="">so close that your sea rises with my heat.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Craig Santos Perez</div></div></div></body></html>