Brackish

Brackish

Tiny blue planet

A poem written after Storm Goretti 'an extremely powerful and destructive extratropical cyclone' hit Cornwall in January 2026

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Katie Treggiden
Jan 30, 2026
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Photo by Zelch Csaba
What if our chest cavity contained
not a bloody, red, beating heart
but a tiny, blue, spinning planet?
“We are nature,” the environmentalists tell us, “nature is us,”
so what if instead of all around us, mother nature resided inside every one of us?
And what if our tiny blue planets’ ice caps were melting 
releasing their ancient pat…
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