{"id":792,"date":"2020-09-16T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=792"},"modified":"2020-09-16T14:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T14:06:32","slug":"storms-tear-across-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/09\/16\/storms-tear-across-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms tear across The Farm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal\"><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-16-2020-2-Laid-Low-1024x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-16-2020-2-Laid-Low-1024x272.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-16-2020-2-Laid-Low-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-16-2020-2-Laid-Low-768x204.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-16-2020-2-Laid-Low-1536x408.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-16-2020-2-Laid-Low-2048x544.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-16-2020-2-Laid-Low-604x160.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Laid%20Low.m4a?_t=1600265151\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Laid Low<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>Two things happened when the storm barreled through<br>the fields and birds took the brunt of the blow.<br>The ripened corn laid down before the wind<br>its dark husks stretched, protecting yellow seeds<br>its bend of stalks, beheaded by the gusts<br>where tangled silk lay scattered on the earth.<br>\u00a0<br>The storm ranged far, and songbirds scattered, lost<br>into the outstretched arms of mighty spruce.<br>The argent sheets of rain beat through the sky<br>where cries and chirps of nestlings swallowed whole<br>revealed a soul of silence on my farm.<br>\u00a0<br>Furious winds tossed fledglings from their nests<br>their beady eyes held hostage through the storm<br>when corn laid low, laid down, before the wind.<br>\u00a0<br>I, now curious, searched below the skirts<br>through fanned out boughs, I blundered for the hurt<br>and found the vanquished tumbled to the ground.<br>\u00a0<br>Our green gold corn lay broken in the fields<br>in morning\u2019s blush I surveyed all the range<br>where thunder winds sheared muted verdant stalks<br>where I could hear a fledgling\u2019s piercing chirps<br>where I well-knew that freight train called the wind:<br>watched corn laid low amidst the summer\u2019s storms<br>when storms beat bloody torrents through the night<br>where the corn laid low<br>where the corn laid low.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 9-16-2020 &amp; 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