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 The wind drew off
Like hungry dogs
Defeated by of a bone
Through fissures in
Volcanic cloud
The yellow lightning shone -
The trees held up
Their mangled limbs
Like animals in pain
When Nature falls upon herself
Beware an Austrian
Emily


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