published in South 33, Apr 06;

in collection, Touching Earth, 2007,

Oversteps Books, ISBN 978-0-9552424-7-2

Tsunami

        26th December  2004

A new word,

savoured on the tongue

like sushi,

sweeps in, swamping languages

with all the inevitable

bitterness of brine.

At such apocalypse

the earth quakes and

the sea coughs up its dead,

choked on the horror of a force

not seen or understood.

Such indescribable malignity and might

requires a strange new

foreign word to bear

its drowning weight.

Alwyn Marriage

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