Livestock can be vulnerable and helpless during these storms too.
Jared Carter, from tornado country, has a poem “Early Warning” in his first collection (Work, for the Night Is Coming). The last four lines, about seeing a cyclone “peel the roof off some / Prefabricated egg factory,” have stuck in my mind:
Livestock can be vulnerable and helpless during these storms too.
Jared Carter, from tornado country, has a poem “Early Warning” in his first collection (Work, for the Night Is Coming). The last four lines, about seeing a cyclone “peel the roof off some / Prefabricated egg factory,” have stuck in my mind:
Thousands of hens, who’ve never seen
The light of the sun, or
Touched earth with their beaks,
Go up the funnel like souls to God.