It's Coming

It’s coming A Nor’easter they have held their finger up compared the spaghetti plots interviewed a guy with arthritis unfurled the flags sounded the alarm and we wait listening to the buoy bells buying batteries and snacks moving back from an unseen tide knowing it will come bending trees scattering empty trash barrels rattling a balky shed door tearing at the edges of the bay we know it’s coming A Nor’easter And we wait! John G. Lawless ©10/25/2021