“The wind is like a bully”
pushing leaves;
breaking branches;
roughing skin;
biting faces.
Nothing like the warm
smoothe breeze of Saint Lucia
caressing…assuaging tension
the sound of the ocean
travels with it
whispering…come to me…
RUN FROM ME YELLS…
the November wind, relentlessly
chasing all who are
exposed to mother nature’s elements
reminiscent of the visceral feeling
while reading Ernest Hemingway’s,
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
[wo]man vs. nature.
I rather not be in opposition with
the season,
the reason?
I want to harmonize with it like
Bob Marley and the Wailers,
wind gently blowing,
delivering freedom
blessings, prophesying
with their lungs,
creating paradigm shifts.
This November wind
screams like
Those whose sleep is
disrupted by bad dreams,
tears crawl down beet-colored-chafed-cheeks
Membrane teleporting to the Lucian island…
a coping mechanism,
a wishing mechanism;
wishing the sun was
the bully beating
on my skin
like the “beat beat beat […]”
of Ella Fitzgerald’s tom-toms
in Cole Porter’s “Night and Day.”
~Seven slug-moving months
‘til this is reality here:(
In this “mean” time,
“The Wind is Like a Bully.”
Shantel Hubert is an educator, jazz artist, and poet. She teaches at George School, an international day and boarding college preparatory high school. She resides in Newtown with her husband and two children. Toni Morrison’s Bluest Eye and Nathanial Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter are two of her favorite novels.
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