Amid the fragrant buds of trees and flowers,
April was known as Starving Month,
when winter stores had been depleted
but the earliest crops could not be reaped,
not mature until May or June.
And this was in a time when harvests were regular,
before the age of methane and fertilizers.
In the Anthropocene it will be drastically different.
You must understand: not only curlews
and monarchs will end their lineages;
record droughts and record floods
and the death of all bees will ensure
widespread failure of staple crops, and prices will skyrocket.
This age of cream and honey will soon run dry,
and the abundance we've known will come to end.
In a decade or two's time,
every month will be a starving month.