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four poems: katrina's pathway
harvest of apoplectic horses
((dedicated to: katrina)) crisis)
it has happened before:
nearby and afar,
where the four-horses of
apocalypse
with their flaming nostrils
breathed in the fury of the winds
only to vomit out, disaster; -
then galloped away,
against pale faces!...
#824 9/2/05
the vanishing
[dedicated to: katrina]
for a time, i left my body-
behind me.
still,
i resided in my darkroom-
"there is good in the world," i said,
the spirit of the world begins
to move-slowly, after katrina.
i closed my eyes, thinking
new orleans, mississippi
(a prayer, if only for one).
women's hands, loaves of bread?
appear?eyes of men tired with dread
burgundy faces, huddled
together?appear.
i say: thank god it's not winter.
the world is silent (mostly)
a few friends hear our cry
but they are just shadows
turned away from the sun.
the only thing worse than death,
is this-the vanishing.
#825 9/2/05
bones in water
(the gem of the south; katrina)
there once was this gem
down along the mississippi
(the big easy, new orleans)
a gem, all wanted to touch:
now in silent waters, like atlantis;
the city in the dark:
once the blossom of the south,
it cannot stand up right now.
broken to its knees, with ease
in the winds of the hurricane:
katrina's pathway: bones and ravage.
#826 9/2/06
doomed to live [katrina]
doomed to live are those who survived-? katrina's massive outcry the defiance of mother nature against mankind-. thus, her ultimatum, her remorseless, implacable unalterable despair- gave her skeleton to create a great catastrophe for humankind? her face was gaunt, with patched gray, colored dead with tarnished braids around her eyelids-unaimed, calm her voice, not even rose- she destroyed new orleans her golden rival!...
#827 9/3/05
dennis siluk, international poet
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