A COMING STORM
• % (Original) >■■'" • - - '.'/■_ Something is going to, happen. . . . .- >'' There is a tense expectancy around.' ' The trees feel it . . . they cannot stir. ,\ '. ' ' And the unripe apples huddle on the branches.' .; The Flower feels it, Frightened by something she cannot' understand; She closes up her- pretty little head. Look at the cat ... .."..',• Sec how her fur rises along her back! Src hoiy she creeps indoors! She is waiting . . . waiting . . • Something is going to happen — 'I he sea . . . oily . . . greasy . . . Is softly slicking against the shadow'd< sand. The sun feels it . . . he is hiding against the dark clouds. How hoi and oppressive it is! Sweep tJie hair back from your clammy brow; Feel how it clicks and rustles in your hand. Where are the birds? Vo sound — but a subdued twitter from a silent tree . . . Silence . . . silence . . . silence . . . The birdless . . . breczeless silence; Before the rumble of the thunder and the crash! The prologue of the summer storm. . / >—Clemency Kin§, Wellington.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 20
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158A COMING STORM Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 20
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