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The poetry of relief

They read their poems to raise cash for flood victims. Many of the works touched not just on the flooding — which destroyed more than 2,000 homes — but also on the cyclicality of disaster here: fire, drought, downpour, flood.

News Poem: ‘Oil and Water’

Two spent storms rode currents out of Mexico until trapped in a Front Range trough. Down in the deeply punctured flats, twenty thousand black wells waited.