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The Perfect Storm

Bored with a tawdry sanguine summer Languidly She licks the brilliant summer blue from the sun addicted sky Through naughty cloudy lips Sucks millenniums of genetic grace from Orchestrated flocks of fright Fleeing down the age old path of migratory birds safe no more With a westward huff She Casts them out randomly Spews Squawking streams of wing 'ed broken teeth. Enraptured with her own manuevers-- Naked now she twirls Reaps magnificent carnal powers Roiling In a screaming bath of sacrificial sailors Flicks her ice tossed coiffure Lingering in her savage beauty She bestows heartless wet kisses on sailors' upturned sightless eyes-- Bloodless slaves forever bound. Sated She whips through frigid seas Disbanding archipelago chains Paper-like streamers frothy in her wake. Tempestuous Goddess of Accidental Largesse To her survivors, breathless in darkness, She provides salty tears as recompense Heading South before she sleeps. ----------------------------------------------- Valdez, Alaska by the shores of Prince William Sound Nov 2014 night after a hurricane

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Date: 11/16/2014 2:57:00 AM
The tempest is a female! If not for the horrific chaos in her wake, I would would applaud, someone so proud...You are awesome madam, captive imagery, I can almost hear and see. Humbled by your work...New friend Kim Patrice :)
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Victoria Anderson-Throop
Date: 11/16/2014 11:51:00 AM
There is a terrifying beauty in mighty storms. That is what I wanted to portray...and I think it happened for you! V

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