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Hurricane Zeb

barrels toward New Orleans

Katrina who?

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five more

tropical depressions form

we're depressed too

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Coastal Alabama after Tropical Storm Isidore

Great Blue Heron, disturbed by the storm, hanging out on a public beach.

 Unusual windrow consisting entirely of shrimp fecal pellets, coating the beach after the storm.

Last house on Dauphin Island, precariously perched at the high tide line, after the storm.

090518

the long arms
of Gordon fill the creeks
the cyclone dies

Cyclonic disorientation

Great Blue Heron

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you coulda been a contender
a tantrum of Congressional proportions
you turned away from history
shrank, dithered, lost half your personhood
now you're just depressed

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my daughter Karen*
as she called herself persuasively
now stirs the Gulf
not coming home to NOLA as she swore at 3
Baldwin County is her destiny




*Not her real name

090511

each plink on head or shoulder tornado-cyclone gift