100 Short Poems
After the big one
A worried woman holds her dog as she walks past damage.
A man slumps against a pump amid the wreckage of a gas station.
A honeymooning couple intent only on enjoying the beach who then
rode out the storm huddled in the stairway of the evacuated hotel
now wheel their luggage down the center of an empty highway.
House Fire
As if it knows no natural limits
smoke occupies the vacant house.
Emblematic of the flames flickering at first,
heat follows behind increasing explosively
until the house becomes a furnace.