when winter comes
so hard. shuddering
with aftershocks well
into spring and even
august, we feel
what happened then.
the rain slapping hard
on a tin roof frightening us
to the window, watching
for hail
or other revolution.
Naomi Buck Palagi has work published in journals such as Spoon River Review, Otoliths, Moria, Eleven Eleven, Blue Fifth Review and Requited. Additionally, she has two chapbooks, Silver Roof Tantrum (dancing girl press, 2010), and Darkness in the Tent (Dusie Kollectiv 5, 2011).
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