Overflow

“The sea level is rising and the wind is blowing. This island is sinking. The beach is narrower after every storm. Entire pieces of land disappear overnight. The movement of the tectonic plates and the changing climate are responsible. The sea is gobbling up more and more of the land. The old people do not believe the island is sinking. They refuse to leave it. They build dykes instead, packing rocks and brushwood into wide-meshed nets and tossing them onto the shores that have been diminished; they call on the spirits and their ancestors for help. The young people do not think at all – neither about the future nor the past.” (Judith Schalansky, 2012)