Natural Disaster
©1981 by Susan Noyes Anderson
The house was resting on a slant
(perhaps a cracked foundation).
Inside a scene of chaos
and total devastation.
No glassware left unbroken.
No table left unturned.
Dinner was in the oven,
but it had long since burned.
A woman sat bewildered
amidst all this confusion.
Her eyes were glazed and staring
as if at an illusion.
What catastrophic fate had pushed
this woman’s world asunder?
An earthquake? A tornado? … Nope!
five children, six and under.
Tags: children, family, home, humor, mothers, parenting
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.