Tuesday, October 21, 2014

AFTER THE RAINY NIGHT

It rained torrents last night
And as usual the power failed:
Sitting in the dark, I listened
To the mayhem outside.
The wind turned and returned to the windows
As if emitted from the howling nostrils of
An angry elemental god.

In the morning, when I opened the window
The trees were still, scared, and bent
Amid a sprawling calm that spread around them.

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