Caught Inside the Eye

Nature—Lord of everything

its blizzards and its droughts

Talking back to a hurricane,

you whisper as it shouts

Your treasured possessions lie in wait

for floods to take away

That rumble heard beneath your feet

to swallow as you pray

Those things you grow and seeds you plant,

the locust comes to claim

As tidal waves begin to form

—you powerless to blame

(The New Room: November, 2021)