Lines From “Leaving the Red Zone”: Aftermath, Part 1

Currently, I’m sharing some of the wonderful lines and stanzas 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 share the first of a two-part focus on the anthology’s “Aftermath” section.

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from “Aftermath”

“$30 billion
7.8 billion litres of spilled
…………..untreated wastewater
535,000 tonnes of silt
181,000 damaged homes
40,000 c...