A- wailing seven witches go
3 pigeons step toe to toe
Temerity speaks their chattering beaks
And one magpie in the hedgerow
Dark sweltering blue cumulonimbus
Sweating heavy with sadness
Troubling winds tremble the saplings
Straight-backed they heroically struggle
Flexing lampposts tapping windows
rattled ravens, jackdaws fly off with crows
Backdoors swing open, as welcoming
A thunder god, come in tormentor, it says
To kitchen, come dishelve the dish shelves
Creaking ironwork of barns
Stand hollow and empty to new harms
Hills hollow howling through tunnels and caves
Wild winds over tame, trammeled graves
Only bones dry, freezing in shackles
Chained now to the earth, love saves
The day
Written in bold the blunderbuss wind gust
blows away roof from frame
Exposed now tool jewels to the baptising rain
Cain on a crane, and Herod on a hook
Come swinging their murderous looks
In the eye of the pain
Oh to numb the pain
The elemental refrain
Of the wind
It's monosyllabic yawl
And cry again and again
Some beast awoken we had best let sleep
But we were not looking
We had stopped looking so deep
That our souls were in this pain
This universal trap which we all feel
But cannot name
And no name, no name comes up again
When we all run and hide
From ourselves
Anonymous blows the windy storm
Though we try to name it
No name seems to fit
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