Unbroken

They had 24 minutes to escape the twister

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/26/joplin.tornado.minutes/?hpt=C1

Hiding under a stairwell,

Or in airless closets,

Praying in bathtubs,

Clinging to children,

As walls and roofs peel away

Wind whips

Uprooting oak and cottonwood,

Tossing pick-up trucks and tractors

Fence flying like a

Metal bird

Couch in treetop

Chandelier on sidewalk

Everything inverted

Crystal vase, strangely unbroken

Surrounded by an avalanche of loss