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for Robin Needham, killed in the 2004 Christmas tsunami

Something

shuddered in the un-

fathomable dark, and a wave

shouldered forth

like an eighteen wheeler

skidding sideways

into oncoming traffic—a wave

inhering by the power

of a word lovely

as snow on a navy sleeve,

the same word

that shuddered in each

dark cell of the dead

Christ, a wave shouldering forth

like a new heaven, new

earth, clearing away

the old, the impossible—a wave,

a word, terrible as it is

great, great as it is holy

and terrible.