Pattern and Forecast (Vol. 5)

Josephine Rowe, The Believer, March 2019

Josephine Rowe considers the accelerated rate of climate change and how, someday soon, this moment in time will be considered the 'good old days'.

On blood-warm evenings when the air is sultry with salt and magnolia and two kinds of jasmine, people gather along the shoreline; sprawls of families and friends backlit by the just-slipped sun, children wading out into an ocean as flat and lustrous as liquid mercury. All of this like a memory of lost footage, the scene of some Rapture or other.