The Confluence Winter 2004

Wind

Poetry by Roger Groghan


The wind is in charge of the dark tonight only stone walls can resist the flight.
No whistles nor howls the sound is a force tracked by isobars.
Only the slightest differences in pressure turns us and once summer strong branches into beings weak and frail.
While poly-bags flap as a shredded sail as ghosts on trees as refugees caught on barbed wire fences keeping out nothing.
Water submits to chaos but the satellite image shows ordered clouds round a vortex,
Unseen from the view of our window.
We return to bed safe in a power cut and listen to the indifferent rage.


   
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