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The post-hurricane skies yielded a sparkling day along the Margaree River. The slideshow features Orange on Blue / Long Distance, from my CD with Max Cohen, Orange on Blue. Max and I wrote the first tune together and he wrote the second and plays guitar on both.
The skies have been washed clear of the rain and the salty hurricane that drove it here. On the west coast of Cape Breton, the ever-present wind only becomes noticeable by its absence. That busy wind clears things pretty fast, be they fog or cloud, the latter racing across the sky to an imaginary finish line.
The latest storm introduced itself with a lot of wind and only spatters of rain. That wind blew at more than 60 kph, around 40 mph. It sounds worse in kph but as a constant, it’s a roar. Prior to the storm, Bob checked the yard for possible flying debris and the next day it rained buckets. Then, suddenly, the wind stopped moving. It was a moment of calm, literally the center of the storm. I sat down with a notebook to describe the phenomenon.
Eye
© 9/23/20 Donna Hébert, all rights reserved.
Still, damp, warm
I sit in the eye of the storm
Windless now
but at dawn
the trees danced,
bending not to break
We rest
within the vortex
still, calm at the center
while Nature
holds her breath
A whispering in the trees
says it’s not over
this one has
a lot of ground to cover