From my newest book, which is still looking for a brave publisher, "For What it's Worth". A political hard view with little humor. Here's a selection from the Global warming/California is on fire section -
Clear cut
We mourn these forests
we plunder if only
we could see the suicidal
tradition
started in these branches.

Sometimes the spectral hem
of a lavender cardigan
or the sole of a brogan?

A man dangles
to our left twisting
like a chrysalis from a twisted elm.

He swings round
gurgling from crushed
windpipe.

If he had a voice, he would curse
the lure of a good rope

and a sound branch.

But we who can’t
resist the lure of a dollar
will never understand.