Unsteady
in a deserted town;
no streets are safe
from the severing blast.
Katabatic wind slides down,
writhes in the city’s grids;
the jet stream carves it
like a knife.
I was disposed to explore the mythology of wind. Directions, meaning, legend. As always, along comes Zephyrus, Boreas plus Notus and Eurus - the classical usual suspects.
But there are more winds than the Greek ones and I borrowed some notions from the American First Nations. Hopefully without doing anything cod or pastiche.
This is one of seven…
in a deserted town;
no streets are safe
from the severing blast.
Katabatic wind slides down,
writhes in the city’s grids;
the jet stream carves it
like a knife.
© BH, 2022
I was disposed to explore the mythology of wind. Directions, meaning, legend. As always, along comes Zephyrus, Boreas plus Notus and Eurus - the classical usual suspects.
But there are more winds than the Greek ones and I borrowed some notions from the American First Nations. Hopefully without doing anything cod or pastiche.
This is one of seven…
Blown | Directions | Northery | Southerly | Easterly | Westerly | Who knew?
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