SYN,
This thread has taken a turn which I did not intend. I am truly moved by your post. Thank you!
I'm going back to help my friends still there.
A Poem by Ann Stanford:
Heat
Wave
has blasted the vines
their leaves fold up to the veins
like torn umbrellas. Fruit bakes in light
birds hide by the trunks of trees.
The earth is about to become a sun.
Yellow clouds of smoke and fog
embrace the sky. The day itself a fire
we are too close to.
Roses open dry petals, holly like buckshot
buckthorn, slick rhus, even the walnuts
clutch useless leaves. Ivy goes brown in the scab of weeds.
Fire is coming on the hot wind.
Here and there it will clean up the earth
heavy with old debris.
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This is how it is for my friends!
I will go back and do what I can. I know this sounds crazy but it's just because I am not able to explain further.
Thank you so much for your kind words, they meant more to me than you will ever know.
I must help my friends. I love them and they love me.
Linda