by Diana Morley
The world’s torrid future is etched in the crippled kidneys of Nepali workers. Kidney disease has become epidemic among Nepali migrant laborers working in the extreme heat of the Persian Gulf, presaging the world's climate change future. Photo: Sak Bahadur Chhantyal, 48, was working on a construction site in Oman for six years before he was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. He has been on dialysis at the National Kidney Center in Kathmandu for almost two years. (Sagar Chhetri) —The Washington Post, January 6, 2023
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Surely it’s time. Time to say we’re fueling our pot heating on high now scalding our insides after shriveling our skin raising black spots burned not tanned where we sit not stirred— to get up in uproar to say our kidneys now cooking like beans.
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Diana Morley has published poems online and in journals as well as two books of poetry and a photographic/poetic documentary of Oregon’s 2020 wildfire and renewal. She writes and resides in North Carolina.
Very Powerful. Thank you for shedding a light on this.