This poem is for my niece Louise who is living in Samoa and for her partner Charlene and her family. I know that Lou and Charlene are fine, but the devastation is terrible. This week has also seen the terrible winds and rain in Philippines and across to Cambodia and Vietnam as well as another earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia. These are difficult times.
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for Lou and Charlene
earth bones creak
and we all fall off
souls seeking nirvana
flung far
down here it seems
so much more mundane
as walls fall rooves cave in
bodies bob
drenched by mud
women walk their children
home from school
in chest high water
in one ocean an elbow
in another a knee
and breath takes the wave
shoreward
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