Epilogue to Disaster

Epilogue to Disaster

After the
crash bang boom and
clatter smash and tear
paper ripping
china breaking
and the car breaking down and
can't be repaired.
And the broken heater
and the futz wires
and the ground that engulfed the pond
and the shaking
from the quaking
from the thunders violent song.
And the racket
and the rain
and the stains that marked a blouse
and the rampage
and the carnage
of the zoo animals that can't be found.

And in the middle
there is silence
and we wait
to see if perhaps it's past.
Slowly moving with it
we worry we're in the eye.

-Matthew Koutzun