Danny's Doomsday...

Danny's Doomsday

Danny's Doomsday takes climate change to Scandinavia where temperatures near and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit have transformed sea creatures into land dwelling monsters.

Like most campy cli if movies, the focus is on monsters produced by our own destructive behaviors rather than mitigating the problems we produced or at least decreasing our own carbon emissions to minimize future monstrous developments.

Danny's Doomsday reminded me of Sharknado with an added coming of age story that suggested destroying (or at least surviving) monstrous consequences of climate crises helps us grow as young adults. Using ecodisasters as rites of passage seems like a good way to bury any messages about our warming planet. If that's the goal in Danny's Doomsday the filmmakers should be happy. The movie buries its opening cause and global ecothreat well.

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The Opposite of Complete Darkness

Nothing but light

blinds us 

on I-75

only a 

blinking

yellow 

snowplow

leads us 

up an off ramp

toward 

a Holiday Inn

where 

white air hockey

pucks 

slide

over

plastic 

ice.

Yesterday

Yesterday 

I learned tiny rolls of solder

melt on ends of silver rings

triangles of steel sail

low-melting alloys sealing

metals into watercraft

floating across

my mother’s ring finger

years before she soared

across Saginaw Bay

on a thirteen-foot Ghost

grey sheets dipping

into waves like smelt.

What Kind of Blue?

What kind of blue

paints morning glories

across an afternoon?

Vined blooms above a pine grove

wrap clouds in autumn sun

that blanket

Janet wore weeks after

her sky of car

flipped teal

in ditchwater

beside Mackinaw Road.