What are their militaries doing there,
really? These Americans and Russians,
some say, research atmospheric warfare
within their shortwave farms, secretly scan
earth, silently harming all despite this
solitary stillness. HAARP’s grids of steel
rise like shining, columned crucifixes
looking toward Mount Sanford. Sura’s parched field
seems lined with barren birches, aftermath
of forest fire just outside Vasilsursk.
Larry sees plots in their megawatts: paths
of radiation lathing China’s crust,
crushing its fault line. Soon Three Gorges Dam
will give way, he says. The rest is bedlam.
Roger Armbrust
May 15, 2008
