Melody Nixon, a cofounder of Apogee Journal, teaches creative writing at Columbia.
The night Cyclone Gabrielle hit, we were safe in our sixteenth-floor apartment in Pōneke Wellington, far above the waters, in the space between land and sky. But three hours’ drive to the north, a tsunami of rainwater roared down from the hills and mountains.
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