Jamaican storm

Storm over Jamaica


Silence
And a Erie calm
Then birds scream out

The tropical green
Greener against the darkened sky
The calls louder on the growing wind

To the music the rhythm of the garden
Starts to rise
Turning and bending
And thrashing

Frenzied
And out of control
The sea trying to rise off
Its now cloudy bed

In a spiral the debris
Is whipped into flight
And the moon watches pleased
While the light flashed out

Then the base cracked and rumbled
Then the light flashed again
And the garden lit up bright
And was froze

Then a slow spit and splatter
Then a rising cascade
Of rain fell to earth
Then the light flashed once more

And the cloud left the beach
And it wandered away
And the light now lit up
In the distance away



And the dance slowly
wound down
And the rainfall died out
And the birds all fell silent
The island was still