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Night Storm

By Sandra J. Whittaker
Friday December 29, 2006

Still ... Still ... waiting for the storm 

 

The long menacing wait ... still ... still ... 

 

Then... the dark harbinger of the huge wind 

 

begins to snake among the leaves ... 

 

Not so still now ... but no real wind 

 

yet. 

 

A great saucer sized splash-drop 

 

Offers its taste to the waiting earth ... 

 

Another and another ... hundreds ... millions 

 

Lashed hard by the great wind 

 

Sideways now. 

 

Ice from the sky ... hitting soft things 

 

punishing ... with its cold soldiers. 

 

Fear begins to whisper along the neck 

 

Pass ... let it pass ... 

 

Let it be gone 

 

and 

 

gone.