The Amazon gasps As scofflaws fell the verdant Cathedrals of green Scorched brown hills of logs. Trees topple and surrender To flame and iron.
The first haiku references the Covid-19 emergency in Manaus, a jungle-flanked city reachable only by plane or boat, where hospitals ran out of oxygen. The second describes a Dantesque scenario, as pristine Amazon rain forest is cleared for new settlements, leading to an even greater proximity between humans and animals.
