Gusty Weather

weather man
said twenty-one miles per hour with
gusts of twenty- seven

relentless wind
continuous now for
twelve hours

twenty-one miles per hour
gusts of twenty- seven

desiccating desert draft
howling without
remorse

toppling furniture raising
towering
swirling dust devils

twenty-one miles per hour
gusts of twenty- seven

birds flying
sideways
off course

once we found
a pelican on the
golf course

two-hundred
miles from
the nearest ocean

twenty-one miles per hour
gusts of twenty- seven

tried to fly
a kite but the
cord came off

the spool so fast
feared it was
going to catch fire

twenty-one miles per hour
gusts of twenty- seven

weather reports are
often somewhat
inaccurate

today is no exception
wind gusts surely more
than twenty-seven mph

my neighbor just
flew by the window
without her broom

twenty-one miles per hour
gusts of twenty- seven

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