June 1st is the official start to the hurricane season, so far our family album is filled with names like Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike – they are all photographs of exile – this year we all hope for better. Tonight on the Magnolia Bridge, a Brazilian singer will play music and we’ll walk down there to listen to him. I will cast my wish to the water under the bridge that this year, 2009, we all are spared having to leave our homes. <\/p>\n
after an apocalypse
\n China 2008<\/p>\nI
\nAll public celebration is
\ncanceled for three days
\nof mourning, but the trees
\non nan hai da dao
\ncan’t resist a confetti shower
\nafter rain. They scatter
\nyellow rainbows where
\nwe walk, remember
\nthe dead but dance for
\nthe living, shower
\neach going on
\nwith flowers.
\nThey have lived after
\nseasons of dying before.
\nThey know ends
\nare fashioned from fragments
\ngathered in the shattered
\nmiddle of things that will not last.<\/p>\n2
\nafter an apocalypse
\nwe prepare for floods
\nwe know all about gods
\nand promises<\/p>\n3
\nFive million is not as hard as one
\nwho has taken shelter
\nunder a walkway
\nthat leads from an English garden
\nto a fortified high rise
\npromise of luxury.
\nFive million is a puzzle
\nfor an engineer,
\ndistant as a collapsing star,
\na cipher in a book of equations,
\na design problem in a textbook
\nfor the next hundred-year storm.
\nOne in shadows is an
\nother, undeniably
\nfragile as oneself.
\nOne and one and one and one,
\non and on and on and on.
\nNot five million.
\nFive million one
\nby one, every one
\ndisplaced, displacing.
\nSee her and you are homeless as any buddha. <\/p>\nSTEVEN SCHROEDER<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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