Irma

Irma

A Poem by Wilyem Clark

Flat, fiery, orange-red atoll
Aswirl in pixel-perfect blue--
That's how we first met her.
Irma's swimming our way, doing her monstrous
Over-arm crawl, sloshing seawater,
Washing and wiping out sea-spots
With furious strokes. Where will she heave
Her widebody wetness onto our shores?
Mathematics predicts a widespread panic
As ants scramble hectically out of their holes
Seeking elevation, all northward trending
And inland, though there isn't much point:
Our stormy friend will swamp the lot.

© 2017 Wilyem Clark


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Wilyem Clark
Wilyem Clark

Washington, DC



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I've been writing poems since my teens (now in my 60s) and prose since the 1990s. It's been hard finding decent forums online--the free websites too often suffer sudden deaths. My "published" works ar.. more..

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