AMAZE
Linda Papanicolaou
 
REVELATION
a Cinquain response to Psalm 46 (KJV)
http://parbarwestward.org/Notes/PS046.htm


Phuket
Banda Aceh
in streaming video
reality tv complete
with wave

google
tsunami and
you see a survivor's
closeup shot of a Thai worker
struggling
neck deep
in astonishment and terror
towards a palm tree that he
may have grabbed on
or not…

"We pray
for them all," writes
someone, and the guestbook
fills with apoplectic ranting
curses
against
a god-who-does-not-exist and
America who does, yet
does too little

meanwhile

I John
at my Patmos
desktop browse and blog as
by the thousands the sea gives up
her dead

Return to the front page of this issue:   Amaze   Vol. 3, No. 2   Fall 2004 & Winter 2005
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These poems are Copyright © 2005 by Linda Papanicolaou.

 

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