"The Buddah does not like it in the Rubble"-(c) Meanders 06/27/2002

I looked for nature in the picture
and saw a fat-lipped Buddah in the middle
with bulging eyes, with thick eyebrows
not pleased, not sore,
just querying mangled steel

I cannot say within this rubble,
if lay concrete reinforced steel,
of walls or building
or even of him...
fat sit upon a pedestal,
but broken now...
the Buddah peers at me through steel.

Up and to the left, the teddy bear, in only head
and by the right, a piggie bank it was his head alone we had
no doubt the pennies sunk below, beneath
this monstrous rock steel pile,
resting now in red ocean floor,
a turmoil stirred the night before
when hurricane winds whipped
... these concrete pieces
... hurled them out to sea as sacrifice