AKA Warbler is a consultant and outdoor adventurer who writes: Before the Australian fires of 2019, I began drafting an essay proposing that North America's long period of peace, at least as far as coastal war is concerned, had left Americans unprepared for the ongoing trauma of cataclysmic events. Then all at once, it seemed the fires said more than I wanted to, and then the pandemic, and I turned instead to writing my own astonishment out as a poem. The second poem was written after a trip to Greece.