Human Tsunami is a phrase used by politicians to explain a wave of refugees fleeing

one country’s coast for another. Think: a sudden crash of corpses in San Francisco;

a cresting curl of torsos and limbs in London; skulls falling from skies in Sydney;

sun-blots of flesh and bonecrush in Beijing. And what of their eyes? Those rainbows of

naked irises trapped at the apex of momentum, each soul suspended before

gravity’s thrust rips them back, a giant tumble

of toes and tongues. The swelling

of sound before

splat; silence.