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Reader Sends 'Hurricane Haiku'
Greenport resident waxes poetic during Irene and shares with North Fork Patch.
Hurricane Haiku
Friday
Gulls in flocks,
A dribble of noisy geese.
Why do we know less than they?
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Harvesting the crops
That may take the wind.
Eat the ice cream
While it’s hard.
Saturday
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Fat, warm drops
Dot a sultry day.
Anxious glances at a neighbor’s tree.
Electronic messages
Puncture the wait.
Libya forgotten.
Sunday
Power out.
No internet, no phone.
Respect objects mechanical.
Wind-wrenched branches,
Storm-sliced shingles.
Indoors we must live with
Enforced calm.
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