{"id":31904,"date":"2016-04-05T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=31904"},"modified":"2016-04-03T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T09:07:47","slug":"lines-from-leaving-the-red-zone-aftermath-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/04\/05\/lines-from-leaving-the-red-zone-aftermath-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines From “Leaving the Red Zone”: Aftermath, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leaving<\/a>Currently, I\u2019m sharing some of the wonderful lines and stanzas from Leaving the Red Zone \u2014\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0poetry anthology (edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston, and published by Clerestory Press) that commemorates the fifth anniversary of the February 22, 2011, earthquake.<\/p>\n

Today, I share the first of a two-part focus on the anthology’s “Aftermath” section.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

from<\/em> “Aftermath”<\/h3>\n

“$30 billion<\/em><\/span>
\n7.8 billion litres of spilled<\/em><\/span>
\n…………..<\/span>untreated wastewater<\/em><\/span>
\n535,000 tonnes of silt<\/em><\/span>
\n181,000 damaged homes<\/em><\/span>
\n40,000 chemical toilets<\/em><\/span>
\n8,900 Christchurch emigrants<\/em><\/span>
\n1,200 demolished<\/em><\/span>
\n………….. <\/span>city centre buildings<\/em><\/span>546 rest home evacuees<\/em><\/span>
\n185 lives<\/em><\/span>
\n.<\/em><\/span>
\n………….. <\/span>2 cathedrals”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ Keith Westwater, “Canterbury Oblations”
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

“If I hear that damn word resilience<\/span><\/em>
\none more time, I will scream,<\/span><\/em>
\nand not stop.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Stuff your cheer-up billboards<\/span><\/em>
\nStuff your fluoro vests<\/span><\/em>
\nStuff your overdone road cones…”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~C.M. FitzGerald, “Resilience Of A Flea”
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

“on the way in from the airport.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A random house with a scaffolded front wall<\/em><\/span>
\nhaving an issue with its chimney.<\/em><\/span>
\n…<\/em><\/span>
\nA church with giant Meccano buttresses.<\/em><\/span>
\nA brick wall propped up with 4 x 2s.<\/em><\/span>
\nEmpty sections.<\/em><\/span>
\nOpen space.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Absent skyline. …”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ Laurice Gilbert, “Christchurch Reveals Itself”
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

“…<\/em><\/span>
\nhow can one lose oneself in a familiar place?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

night colludes — landmarks camouflaged<\/em><\/span>
\ndarkness or coloured lights or temporary<\/em><\/span>
\nstructures; overshoot the turning; panic doubles<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

my heartbeat: my disorientation”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ Karen Zelas, “Here And There”
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Spare me earthquake <\/em><\/span>
\nconversation,<\/em><\/span>
\nwe try to be tolerant<\/span>
\nbut we ……<\/span> find it a bore”<\/span><\/p>\n

~ Cherry Hill, “Speechless”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently, I\u2019m sharing some of the wonderful lines and stanzas from Leaving the Red Zone \u2014\u00a0the\u00a0poetry anthology (edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston, and published by Clerestory Press) that commemorates the fifth anniversary of the February 22, 2011, earthquake. Today, I share the first of a two-part focus on the anthology’s “Aftermath” section. — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakepoems","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31904"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31911,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31904\/revisions\/31911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}