Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Foreshocks", a found poem.

Denial
Memories struck
Guided, shielded, buried
fates preordained.

Foreshocks authored
Statistical analysis
predicts the charged response.

That dangerous unwillingness
to acknowledge

Inevitable disruption.

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(from the article “Ready or Not” by Amy Wallace, Smithsonian February 2012)

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