{"id":2491,"date":"2022-08-09T20:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2023-11-12T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:13:51","slug":"fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"FOSSILS: Dark Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/plotrocks.gif?resize=250%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2492\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The playgrounds were strewn with ash<br>Smoke still billowed from the underpass<br>Further out in the estuary steam rose<br>From the tanker now beached and rusting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lights now only flickered around the estate<br>On every other day to conserve energy<br>Milk floats converted to run on steam<br>Carried bodies of those who froze<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up the icy streets to the crematorium<br>The one place left they still used gas<br>The old cylinder gas tanks long since<br>Deflated like punctured balloons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horses and cattle roamed the empty fields<br>Looking for their owners and a bale of hay<br>But the engines that brought them<br>Had long since died and started to rust away<br><br>No-one now could remember how it started<br>One day there were fires everywhere<br>The pylons buzzed in the rain<br>Then it stopped, silent roads, empty skies<br><br>Hands scratching for fuel kept finding<br>Impressions of leaves and insects in the coal<br>For a while the neighbours chopped down trees<br>Built holes in their eco-house roofs<br><br>To let the newly built fire-places let out smoke<br>then the hard winter stopped that<br>By spring there was no firewood to be had<br>All the oil and gas had burnt out long ago<br><br>Slowly the bones started to appear<br>Bodies lying in the fields slowly<br>fading back into the chalky soil<br>Row upon row of chalky fossils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The playgrounds were strewn with ashSmoke still billowed from the underpassFurther out in the estuary steam roseFrom the tanker now beached and rusting Lights now only flickered around the estateOn every other day to conserve energyMilk floats converted to run on steamCarried bodies of those who froze Up the icy streets to the crematoriumThe one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[115,56,107,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-weather","category-eco-writing","category-green-politics","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6nhh-fossils","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}