Hurricane Sandy battered New Jersey,
flooded houses, toppled trees, blocked roads
washed away beaches and made people huddle
like cavemen in the dark
But birds, masters of extreme weather
corrected their course when blown astray
dive-bombed like missiles for fish
used the storm as a sling shot to gain speed
and rode the gale windsurfing through the sky
— Vida Chu
Chu grew up in Hong Kong, came to America for college, and stayed. She has lived in Princeton for 48 years. Her poems have appeared in Kelsey Review, Princeton Arts Review, US 1 Worksheets, and the Literary Review.
