University Diaries features many of these (click the category NEWSPAPER POEM). They are poems inspired by – drawn from – newspaper stories. Here’s the source of this one.
SNOW ON ATACAMA
The long low A‘s of earth’s Aridias –
Atacama Antarctica Sahara –
Cast dry spells like abracadabra.
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The mind adores Venusian death-forms.
Even more, vanishingly rare life-storms
That come from cyclones’ cold cores.
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These wetted the bone dry Altiplano
And shut down ALMA (but not SOAR)
While snow drifted down from the north.