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Prairie Storm

from Sketches and Demos by Douglas Hamilton

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Three weeks of heat and no rain

Three weeks
of grasshoppers hopping
insects chanting
bluebottles buzzing
Sparse breezes sigh, then sink back to the dust
Because they must
Because they must

Three weeks of towering clouds
Rolling across the distant horizon
Gathering hopefully
Rumbling fitfully
Random raindrops spatter here and there
Then disappear
Without a trace

Then suddenly
A bigger storm
An actual breeze
This one’s headed this way

Then suddenly
It’s dark as night
Torrents of rain
Almost a flood today

Behold the grateful land
Storm’s rumbled off and left in its wake
A fresh-blooming prairie
Jewel-strewn grasslands
Air alive, a certain scent persists
The world exists
Nature exists

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from Sketches and Demos, released March 21, 2012
Words, music and performance by Douglas Hamilton

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Douglas Hamilton Bristol, UK

Doug Hamilton puts his finger on what's terrifyingly funny about modern life and just keeps probing. In other hands, this could be dire, but Doug has a special way of making you laugh AND making you think. Doug grew up in America, came of age in Scotland, and has been bouncing between the US and the UK ever since. He never saw an instrument he didn't want to play. ... more

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