You May Ask Who Are the Storm Gods

Milton passed
Helene passed over
Earlier
Now one
At least
Is turn out
To sea
Where it will accost
As storms do
Ships and islands
There

In their way
We’re only in their way
The hurricane
Tornadoes
Storms are mindless

Believing gods are in there
Might
Be Interesting

We may say
God of the storms
To be figurative
To add to
The personality of God
For our
Relating
Also to make sense in fear and
Hope
That God is intimate with
Nature
And God is

And when God might say
People of the Earth
What are you doing with the planet
Well
I guess we could argue for metaphors
Of us with God
Though
I don’t think
God will go
With that

For the Earth is ours
The human ours
Even
God-given
And the responsibility is ours
Even
Now in aspect
Of storms

We make them worse

And who’s to care
While
We are rescuing
And
Picking up
And mourning
Oh
So much
So much that is
Lost

Afterward
When afterward
Becomes
The now
We can talk on this
And then together
May do
Something for

This Earth
The extraordinary gift
On which
You know
You know
We live

C L Couch


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