NEWS CYCLE DEBRIS POEM
BY NORA ALMEIDA
We are not coeval / With a locality / But we imagine others are
-George Oppen, “Of Being Numerous”
at the boundary
around makeshift up
buildings of a New York
running this late-season almost winter
oasis number
an unremarkable
storm rose
the trees decline
a recurring Atlantic a freakish
time coast show
were swept away
found dead faced
were swept away
by contentious experts
in hurricane decades
through glass
power blinked off
precise body of an hour
the Atlantic was decades
a murky vivid display
of mysteries notably
of greenhouse emphasized
of trouble seas the risks
the system environment
becoming area
vexing
things typical of the middle latitudes
are rare enough
heavy are expectations
and atmospheric
wreckage without