When the earthquake happened in Japan in 2011, and it caused a tidal wave, and flooded the nuclear energy plant in Japan. It all seemed so far away. I was shocked when I picked up a news magazine at the doctor's office a few weeks later, and saw a photograph, and then experienced emotions about all that which I never would have believed I had inside of me. I wrote this poem. It was published by a site called Poetry24 in the Spring of 2011.
The Survivor
she sat among the destruction,
on page three of the magazine,
rocking herself,
I leafed through the rest of the magazine,
but her image is all I see.
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