Poems of the Week

Para-dicey Weather

by Alex Steelsmith

“Hawaii Reopens to Tourism”
Hawaii Visitor Guide, December 1, 2021

“Blizzard warning issued for Hawaii”
Yahoo!, December 3, 2021

Shivering quivering
tropical visitors
exit the airport and
right on the spot

find that despite all the
tourist-industrial
marketing, paradise
isn’t so hot.