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Cowboy Thunder
A Storm in the Distant West
A stampede kicks up
funneled by corkscrew clouds
a curse of cumulus
The Thunder Master throws streaks across the plains
ripping through pastures like gunpowder shattering
Great growl in the west
seems to reach the ends of the earth
A wind, full-blown and fierce
slings torment
creating a catastrophe of trees
and this hollow earth shakes
Mythic cowboys hitch their team
in the clouds
as the hot air collides with the cold
The drumbeats of hail pound out battle cries
blasting fruits from skinny barks of trees
the bleached bones of the dead
shine through this blinding storm
The asphalt faces of angry cowboys menace the night
while the plain hide here
deep in the crater of destruction
storm-blown
howling their unrequited dreams
The renegade henchman strong in their stirrups
lassoing thunder turning toward the virgin sky
in a flash finish
Left behind, the hidden
brave barbed wire and
crawl out in new skin
ever skittish of stampeding storms
