Words from a Teacher's Past, 78

“Words, words, words.”

—    Hamlet (2.2)

List #16: (a) holocaust, (b) diminish

The holocaust destroyed the wood—

The way a raging fire, well, could.

All lives diminished in the blaze—

Including ours: We’re now in haze.

This earth we love we need to mind—

Neglected nature’s less than kind.