Amrita Chakraborty | yields like fever| Poets Resist

Amrita Chakraborty is a Bangladeshi-American writer from New York. Her work has been published by Winter Tangerine, Augur Magazine, The Poetry Annals, and others. She has also self-published a mini-chapbook entitled Incarnate and was a winner of the 2018 Golden Shovel Poetry Prize.

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Poets Resist
Edited by Samantha Duncan
April 2, 2019

Amrita Chakraborty

yields like fever

unfamiliar people finding the cascading world the last change is risk We see We see them coming in direct disease noted also each author of the Heat. storms can batter the help rein in and overwhelm the American extreme could be a boon to these swiftly burning savings the authors said “do that good for us. be our good warm domino.” exposed and exceptionally mortal By midcentury our questions will inhabit those deadly places and even rainfall on mosquitoes has want. and already the drought comes according to the Floods rising diminishing rising and threatening security in the States.

Note: this is an erasure poem, with all text selected from a New York Times article entitled “Study Warns of Cascading Health Risks From the Changing Climate,” published on November 28, 2018.