Mosquitos buzzless
DNA deranged     temperature still rising

Earthquake weather

          L.A.’s way of explaining      /      slippage
          under      out from under
          the shock of it timed by color      /      red
          means within the hour      near Mexicali this time

          (when I stood there where it is red
           the wind had me in its fist)

This map is unreviewed by human eyes

          says the screen reporting more activity along the fault
          than originally supposed

          It’s terribly quiet      wind or no wind

The weightlessness of air      or of some other huge thing
suspended in its own mind

which swallows up