It's a lovely poem that tells of what happened next as Lot and family leave Sodom. Some great phrasing, but it's a simple tale of what people do after disaster. Look and see and shift through.
I like how ordered the poem is - all those tercets. The last, single line seems a bit superfluous. I think it's there to be a bit of a gotcha, bam! And, of course, to throw in that seal-the-deal last Biblical reference. It's kind of cheap, but the rest of the poem is so strong I don't mind it much.
Favorite line: "her head turned back as if in longing to be the girl / she had been in the city she had known."
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