Gales

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Gales

Shining cloud-veils
cold-veined, tearing
shrieking  past the
the cannonball moon.

Open jacket, work shirt,
wind-pummel  beating my chest -
but it cannot get through!

Today saw tall trees felled fast,
one-way signs bent to the ground
in obeisance. How brute
gusts rocked cars!

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