July Winter Storm

trees along the fence line strain stretched tight by the wind turning inside and out leaves in all directions buffeting and thrashing in the howling gale sheets of horizontal rain hammer the paddocks through the knee deep mud sodden cowprints overflow with water still the rain pours down uncontrollably and the wind roars over the hills scarred with open clay slips raincoat and gumboots barely visible in the gloom the farmer trudges home after evening milking