<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Mother of Storms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Our Mother is drunk, on some kind of bender;</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">We celebrated the rain’s return last winter,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">But now her bounty fuels a berserker hunter</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">With no regard for our civilized borders.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">All night heard her moan an eerie song</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Didn’t know her shrieks were whipping along</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Her teen-age sons grass and timber gorging;</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Young bulls hurtling down slopes fire balls hurling</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Stampeding across the freeway for fresh fuel</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Firestorming: Gulping down each family’s jewel</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Whole neighborhoods erupt in flames</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;">Friends lose everything the night insane.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px;"><span style="line-height: 19.973333px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Brian McSweeney</span></div></div></body></html>