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The poetic city: “Hurricane Prep”

Jul 12, 2019 • City Contexts, Creative Writing, Environment

New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: Uptown house with wall blown off. (Photo: wiki commons)

Hurricane Prep

Getting ready…

Trimming branches,

making cuts sharp and clean.

But Nature doesn’t clip.

She prefers to tear and rip

with no mercy and

and no second thoughts

Fairness and forgiveness

are foreign to her lexicon,

Except by way of Death

where all are equal, all is reconciled,

And the gift of impermanence

shines with Eternal Grace

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