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After the Floods

(  prose poetry )  
    
     
A storm grows in the high desert, low to the sage with the windy gusts where grass & brush bends, and the air crackles with sparks, and lightning forks fracture like bony fingers across the threatening sky that light up the bird life taking shelter. Till at last the storm splits open, washing everything below aside with a deluge where the moaning of heavenly hosts let loose a warning where the season of fires months before had stripped the trees on the distant mountain rim down to bare twigs and naked earth with spikes where once were trunks of majesty. From eroded hills come the floods, gathering speed as the lightning strobes flash with blinding strikes, and winds howl without mercy.  The downpours seem endless, as iron rails and barrels rattle and roll through angry dark storm clouds. An hour later, the mass is moving on, and the thunder’s rumble is heard less in longer intervals, with the sound of what seems like a thousand faucets, their taps turned on full force as the floods race through the foothills and gullies down to a dry riverbed that suddenly comes alive, taking dozens of tumbleweeds along for the ride, and the intensity of the late afternoon is finally revealed with the last of the storm’s retreat.  The land preens, the Joshua shimmer, while already the flight of birds begins to brighten the clean scapes with their swift surveys for nesting and foraging.    
     
     
     
     
( 20 lines )
Written by Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
Published
Author's Note
For Melia’s “Land-scaping”

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