Another Natural Disaster |
Issue 14
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Soft tones, stray stares
stacked upon another day-- add pressure to a boiling core, coercing shifts and movements, bringing tectonic plates to crash-- Causing quakes-- tumbling cityscapes we’d just begun building, cracking sidewalks and roads we mock-paved. When two winds fail to follow a united flow across shared skies, and opt to entwine over moving beautifully-- rhythmically-- side by side, town meets tornado-- trees uproot, structures fold, more innocence dies. between two well-meaning souls. A long list of natural disasters hang under my name from the years of yous-- from facing down pressures-- too high to hide. |
Michael Roque, born and raised in Los Angeles, discovered his love for poetry and prose amid friends on the bleachers of Pasadena City College. Now he currently lives in the Middle East and is being inspired by the world around him. His poems have been published by literary magazines like North Dakota Quarterly, Cholla Needles, The Literary Hatchet and others.
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