There was a wolf, a cat, and a hen. <br />All my king's horses... <br />All my king's men... <br />Still...no help comes. <br /> <br />I wait for the storm...there will be <br />No witch flying outside my <br />Window. <br />Not tonight. <br />Not this late hour. <br /> <br />Turkeys in the front yard, <br />Chickens huddled at the front <br />Door, <br />Wolf under my window... <br />Silence of Coyotes in the <br />Canefields. <br />Still...no help comes. <br /> <br />Winds are from the East. <br />Rains are from the East... <br />Three days now. <br /> <br />The radio talks of a monster <br />In the Gulf...crawling, stopping <br />To look around...choose oaks <br />Hundreds of years old... <br />Choose Plantation mansions... <br />Winds...150mph. <br /> <br />It will flatten the near-harvest <br />Canefields...sugar prices will <br />Soar. <br />It will prune the Oaks. <br /> <br />It will shift the house I live in <br />Three times... <br />Winds...180mph.<br /><br />elysabeth faslund<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/180-mile-per-hour-winds/
