The 2019 Hurricane Season officially started yesterday, June 1st. But the devastation done by storms in prior years lingers on.
Massive flooding in the Midwest, currently, dominating the news, carries similar calamitous results. Take it from somebody who knows.
Apples to Oranges
No storm surges or tidal flows,
no gale force gusts
lash our lake up North.
Here, ill-tempered winds
kick up white-caps,
act like a fist-pounding toddler
enough to jostle bass boats and push
clueless canoeists against a far shore
send lily pads pitching on swells,
and fish hustling to the calm below.
But down South, oceans
barrel through Gulf Coast doors.
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A cloudburst floods the forest.
Our brimming lake overspills
banks, and seeps under doorsills,
sluicing cabin floors.
No tempest with a name,
no buffeting blows, only water
remodeling.
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At storm's end apples and oranges
and the same taste of fruit gone bad.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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