Have you ever read the children’s book “Blueberries for Sal”?
Sal’s a popular, charming “down East” fictional gal.
Sal collected blueberries (plunk plunk into the pail)
She gathered blueberries each Maine summer, without fail.
But, I read in the newspaper …early today
that Sal will have to find blueberries some other way
because climate change is killing this lovely Maine crop
and the supply of blueberries is starting to drop.
Blueberry pancakes, blueberry jam and that pie
Sad to think of blueberry bushes starting to die.
But all that we know of … in both water and on land
may, because of climate change, face a desperate “last stand.”
6/7/21