Poet’s Showcase

March Madness (12 March 2006)

By Priscilla S. McKinney

A “microburst”

sudden

powerful

topples trees

power lines

strips roofs

crushes cars

flattens pines

splits sycamores

fells huge oaks

leaves one elm

where two stood

grand

equal

friends ponder

nature’s chaos

random

mysterious

clearing debris

as car radios

supply power

to hear the game …

a winner!