As a boy, I remember reading about
the horse latitudes.
Those were the places in the ocean
where - at times - the winds didn't blow
for long periods at a time.
Drifting in the middle of the Atlantic,
sailors would cut loose anything that
wouldn't keep them alive
& which might weigh them down,
that sometimes meant shoving horses
overboard to tread water 'til
they died from exhaustion.
People used to live or die by the winds.
Today, we only die by them.
That's what occurred to me as we sit
closer to nuclear annihilation than we've been
since I was a teenager,
and as I reflect upon
the prevailing winds.
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Excellent short post. Let’s just hope these changing winds don’t lead to doom
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What you write is so true. I have memories of the Cold War in the back of my mind. I think the younger generation has no association with this possibility. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you.
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