Tuesday & Poetry: More Lines From “Leaving The Red Zone’

Last week, Ishared some of the wonderful lines and stanzas from the “September” (ie 4th, 2010: the 7.1 earthquake) from Leaving the Red Zone —thepoetry anthology (edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston, and published by Clerestory Press) that commemorates the fifth anniversary of the February 22, 2011, earthquake.

The September 4 earthquake may have been bigger on the Richter scale, but it was the violent vertical accelerations of the February 22nd quake (6.3), which struck at 12.51 pm,...