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Dawid Juraszek is a bilingual author and educator based in China. A published novelist in his native Poland, his fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in The Remembered Arts Journal, Amethyst Review, The Font, Amaryllis, The Esthetic Apostle, Artis Natura, and elsewhere. Visit https://amazon.com/author/dawidjuraszek Bijou Zhou grew up in China's Hunan province. Having first learned painting from a local artist, she went on to receive a degree in Fine Arts, before moving to the USA to study English. She now lives in Changsha, China. Her artwork has appeared in Mused Literary Review, Artis Natura, Soft Cartel, and on the cover of The Cabinet of Heed.  CLINGING ArriaShrouded in leaves and bark its branches on the ground made her look up Against the concrete wall she remembered it stood still The lunch break all but over the metal would be back soon to finish the job She touched what was left raised her hand to her hair and with the vision of herself growing up as it grew tall she pulled at a strand just big enough winced groaned and held it up high 'It doesn't hurt,' she said as passers-by walked on XerxesMicroplastics and CO2 Desertification and smog Landfills and algal blooms Flooding and deforestation Mudslides and sand mining Fertiliser runoff and oil spills Fracking and feedback loops Coral bleaching and droughts Melting glaciers and tar sands Heat waves and degraded soils Toxic waste and failing harvests Biodiversity loss and oil pipelines Hurricanes and depleted aquifers Light pollution and rising sea levels Ocean acidification and tipping points Albedo effect and collapsing fish stocks Saltwater intrusion and extinction events Thawing permafrost and radiative forcing Methane clathrates and shrinking ice caps Resource depletion and urban heat islands Ecocide and anthropogenic climate change Power structures, short-termism, and greed This is why I'm weeping CatoSay they came and rescued you when you
had it all worked out thought through torn down all loose ends tied no leftovers and no one stood to suffer more than you would otherwise. Say they looked at you with that warm pity as if they knew better as if nothing was about to come crashing down and you knew they would do it again if you did it again. Say you wanted them to fail and never again stop you midway through or any one else for that matter. Take another shot at it for the pain they caused you sue them re- purpose yourself while there is time. What do you say?
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