Hurricane Melissa: The Calculated Catastrophe

BLACK PEARL

SPECTRUM WAVE PUBLISHING

SPECTRUM WAVE MUSIC ENT.

This was not anyone’s imagination.

She was the cyclops who opened all

Four of her eyes, by everyone's surprise, were preparatory

She did not form over warm Atlantic waves by chance.

She was conjured from data, given a lethal dance.

Her eye was a perfect, predatory ring of cold,

Her rain bands were razors, her story foretold.

First, she made landfall in Haiti.

She found the hills already scarred, the earth already frail.

She did not bring wind; she brought a tsunami of mud.

Entire villages—Gonaïves, Jacmel—were swallowed in a thud.

The statistical report, cold and neat:

8,500 c ...