WATERMARK

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Established 02004

Snapshot 29 December 02004 – Tsunami

montage-a-google: tsunami
Montage-a-google|tsunami  via Chasing Daisy

It’s beyond comprehension. Each morning, the number grows: 22,000; 44,000, 58,000, 76,000 —

This entire city, its booksellers, its bureaucrats, its shopkeepers, gone.  Homes, grocery stores, apartment buildings, libraries, swept away.  Its grandmothers, gardeners, carpenters, and all of its children, dead.  Bodies in the broken streets.

It’s beyond imagining.

this morning
a dead sparrow
on the frozen ground

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