050221d

10 years and 3 days

when will the paper shut up

about the storm?

reminded every day

we drive through my neighborhood

040921

 

official death toll

search and rescue saw

so many bodies

 

 

 

042711, perhaps they didn't count the unidentifiable

 

040721b

 

pink snow

insulation settles

after the storm

 

 

 

042711, tornado

040221c

 

 hole in the roof

and ornaments in the street

Georgia too, maybe

042711 storm

040221b

 

On Jupiter, it turns out, tornadoes are typically several hundred miles wide. Pity about the colony.

040221

 

 I toured Alberta

after the storm had come and gone

but I didn't recognize the place 

there wasn't much left at all

hey ho, way to go, tornado

042711; thank you, Pretenders

040121d

 

car wash drug dealers

blown away with the rest

gone to Oz

042711 tornado

040121c

 

city could plant

wildflowers in grassy lots

houses 10 years gone

 

 

 

 

042711 tornado

040121b

 

one block N

was obliterated

one S untouched

 

 

 

042711 tornado

033021b

 

I helped others

who also lost their homes

now I cut grass

Robert does a superb job. 042711.

033021

 

found a car

in my back yard

no idea whose

 

 

 

 

Friend, 27-Apr. 11 tornado

032921c

 

woke up

in the yard next door

my house was gone

 

 

 

 

Caregiver, 27-Apr. 11 tornado

032921b

 

took the roof clean off;

when the dog rose,

Louise tackled her;

if the funnel hadn't moved off in time,

they'd both have learned to fly

 

 

 

 

Neighbors, Apr. 27, 2011

032921

 

marching out 

like a lamb

twister and shout

042711

032821c

 

12-16

one year, before Christmas

some lost homes and lives

032821b

 

tornado weather

that peculiar sky sends folks to basements

with battery-powered radios

092418b

Uneasy rests the head in Oz


1. The farm equipment is restless.
2. Witches hold all the real power.
3. Even a cowardly lion can bite.
4. Soldiers without hearts are not necessarily more obedient.
5. Must avoid making the witch call out the flying monkeys.
6. What happens if malcontents remove their green glasses?
7. My predecessor did not build the wall high enough to block cyclonic travel from alien countries.