Tuesday & Poetry: More Lines from “Leaving The Red Zone” — Aftershock

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing 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.

Today, I am sharing some lines and stanzas from the “Aftershock” section of Leaving the Red Zone.

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from “Aftershock”

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