danielle salerno
Your eyes have a way of unleashing earthquakes
and your smile is category five
The breathtaking destruction of Nature Herself
is bound up in the furrows of your brow
So, I have to ask myself:
If you’re the embodiment of The Storm
why am I always the one
who’s a natural disaster around you?
Three Hurricanes in a Trench Coat
Danielle Salerno is a poetess and Jersey Girl currently sweltering in Southwest Florida. Her work has been featured in The Tongue is Sharp: An Anthology of Feminine Rage and Scenes of a Better World Zine, and is forthcoming in the inaugural issue of Prudence Dispatch and the Roots and Ruin 2025 Anthology by Arcana Poetry Press. When her nose is not firmly planted in her notebook, she can be found singing with the Fort Myers Mastersingers and chasing her loved ones around with a Tarot deck.