States of Poetry - Poems
'Waking up poem' by Gina Mercer | States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two
by Gina Mercer •
Forget
all you know about Canute,
the king who believed the waves under his dominion,
he could stop the tides by command.
Remember
to bet all you have
on the dead cert
that global warming is real
as real as the Incas are extinct.
Published in Weaving Nests with Smoke and Stone, Walleah Press, 2015, page 26.