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Tornado

Thursday, July 17, 2008

This fib chain was written for Poefusion’s Friday Five prompt. This week’s words were: wail, hay, scrawl, clobber, and encourage. Enjoy.

-Nicole
————————————-
stones
lay
scattered
tornado
scrawled our homelessness
onto to the land in rock letters

it
made
hay of
this town – the
clobbered brick houses
wail open-mouthed laments skyward

we
stand
under
blue sky roofs
and encourage each
other to silence the wailing

Written 7/17/08
&copy 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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7 Comments leave one →
  1. Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:27 pm

    Tornadoes are to be feared, certainly. I hate it when we get high winds here because we are out in the open more. I can fully relate to these fibs you’ve written. Nice job. Have a nice day.

  2. Noah permalink
    Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:41 pm

    Great work!

  3. Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:35 pm

    This works well – particularly the first verse which is very powerful. “it made hay” didn’t quite fit for me as I associate it with something positive – making hay while the sun shines. Blue sky roofs is great phrase to describe this kind of destruction.

  4. Friday, July 18, 2008 9:19 am

    Thanks everyone…

    Lirone: to be fair, “make hay of something” may not be a better-known expression. It means to destroy something or render it ineffective or useless.

    -Nicole

  5. Friday, July 18, 2008 10:32 am

    Terrible things, tornadoes. We get the occasional one here in the UK, but they’re minute compared to some places.
    You describe the effects well.

  6. Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:35 pm

    Thank you, Anthony.

    -Nicole

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