by Oonah V Joslin
satellites show yesterday
before
neat blocks of homes and businesses
after
a matchstick-math of devastation
5 p.m.
“Yesterday”
jingles
like an ice-cream van
and “troubles seemed so far away”
to let the children know it’s time for play
in this deep debris field
now all disorderly
a change of tune
now lessons done
yesterday
a half life and a half life and a half life away
there were reactions
worldwide
there is fallout
sorrow
but hope never spent
(Offunato was devastated by the tsunami that hit Japan . Let us not forget the people there or the lives wrecked by that event.)
Published with permission
Offunato’s “Yesterday” was first published in Static Poetry IV 2011
