Fraiku: Bomb Cyclone

Posted on 2022-12-23 by Bartholomew Barker

“Once in a generation”
Why do these storms
happen every winter?

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
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23 Responses to Fraiku: Bomb Cyclone

  1. equipsblog's avatar equipsblog says:
    2022-12-23 at 19:40

    A quest ion for the ages (climate change, anyone?)

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  2. JeanMarie's avatar JeanMarie says:
    2022-12-23 at 19:47

    ‘Tis a puzzlement.

    (The King and I)

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  3. JeanMarie's avatar JeanMarie says:
    2022-12-23 at 19:53

    Indeed it is most vexing! Like a massive winter storm when people are traveling for the holidays. *shakes fist at sky- damn global warming.

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  4. r.Douglas's avatar r.Douglas says:
    2022-12-23 at 19:56

    Once in a generation must refer to lepidopteran begetting …You know…like, if a butterfly flaps its wings in Thailand Tennessee might see a tornado tomorrow …or some way too cool chaos theory thingy…but your point has heat.

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  5. Ali Grimshaw's avatar Ali Grimshaw says:
    2022-12-23 at 23:25

    Telling of our times

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  6. Gift Emmanuel Olaleye's avatar Gift Emmanuel Olaleye says:
    2022-12-24 at 12:49

    I guess it’s inevitable. With increase in moist comes increase of cold, which in turn brings the storm.

    Seasons greetings to you and yours Bartholomew. 🎅

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  7. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2022-12-26 at 06:28

    “To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything.
    But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories.
    And humans loved stories, because once you’d turned things into stories, you could change the stories.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

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  9. Susi Bocks's avatar Susi Bocks says:
    2023-01-14 at 20:24

    Because global warming is changing the timeline!

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