Disconnect

Christian Century, May 29, 2007 by Sarah Rossiter

Disconnect

   in a pink shirt the reporter speaks
   his voice ripe with excitement while
   behind him the Wave crashes over
   and over the same bodies flung
   like broken sticks which in an instant
   they have become bundled into
   body bags bulging on the shredded sand
   though when we return we'll hear
   from one survivor in a wheelchair
   whom we glimpse smiling as the scene
   shifts to a woman waltzing across
   her kitchen dazzles as she holds high
   a ziplock bag not large enough for bodies
   no but fruit she says stays fresh for days.