Blue Clouds

 

Blue clouds spell

danger

on the Prairie,

especially

after the

heat and

the dust

kick up a storm…

the most terrified

I had ever been

was

watching in the rear view mirror

as the

dark blue funnel cloud came

toward the car.

 

Panic gripped me

by the throat

and nearly squeezed

the sense out of me –

my small children,

strapped in car seats

in the back;

my mother in the medical office

beside us.

 

It became

very clear,

very quickly,

where my priorities lay…

if that dark blue

funnel cloud had gotten any closer,

I would have saved my babies

and

driven away.

 

(c) R. L. Elke 2016