The ripping aside of structural memory
this is trauma
and traumatic furthermore is
this tearing away of memorial architecture
which is not the anguish of others
the living in this or that region has no safety
the impact is general
for it is our memory
and it is our region, where
shit bricks and the broken
the architecture collapsed
on our nest
it falls.
Our archaic experience is now
now challenged
as are the migrant birds above
who cannot comprehend how
an entire island has vanished.
Entire islands vanish all the time.
All time is a string of vanishing islands
their trophy worn beauty
wearing thin.