Showing posts with label disasters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disasters. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2015

The disaster in me


Gasp
gusty winds aloft
Tremble
strings of faulty nerves
Flooded
emotional levee buckles
damned
storm
surges
Quaking knees
collapse
Heat waves
carried by ripping currents
that pull me deeper
nearer
the purple flame
Fire
accelerated
I am a natural disaster.



Image by Leonardo da Vinci, 1517-1518, Natural Disaster [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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