Google image of Rita, 2005
September 12, 1998
rain ... remnants
of ebbing tropical storm--
child fears tornado
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GEORGES - late September, 1998
palm and pine collapse
under the hurricane's eye
silence
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hurricane-spawned flood
thrashing the muddy rice stalks
against a rock
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mounds
of white gravel
where the town once stood
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FLOYD - September, 1999
wider
than Florida
Hurricane Floyd
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RITA - mid-September, 2005
home floating ... now lodged
against a willow oak
hurricane-made lake
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KAREN - early October, 2013
What will I write
about incoming Karen?
she spoiled our beach trip?
c PL, lovepat press
