Vortex

Weather wasn’t always like this

forever winds 

bouncing off the mountains 

blizzards 

bringing the chaos

of flailing and falling 

leaf heavy boughs, 

their trunks lying 

still

broken 

or uprooted

and the gush 

and rush 

of wild, 

wild water

spiralling 

in chaotic 

cascades.

I had thought that here

we were sheltered

by the mountains

but now we’re

in the centre

of an angry vortex

under the still blue sky,

it’s a whirling blue vortex

in this dervish of a blizzard.

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