Isaac's Storm

No announcement of the
coming storm, except what
was in the clouds, the wind,
the rain. Nature's warning
screamed, "Hurricane!" Science

knew it all (Galveston,
Texas, Nineteen Hundred) -
inCLINEd to believe it:
been blows, before. They'd come
onshore and leave just as

quickly. Not this day, the
Eighth of September: streets,
overran; stilted homes
deemed impervious knocked
off their foundations; six

thousand men, women and
children died. The sea coughed
up its dead; funeral
pyres burned for weeks - the
unnamed storm was Isaac's:

remembered for its strength,
for its ferocity,
for the damage it caused,
for unraveling man's
attempt to outguess God ...

(c) 2007, Karla Dorman