El Viento's Revenge Poem by Nika McGuin

This poem is the polar opposite of FLORETTE'S WOODS. In the latter Florette exists in a garden space of harmony with nature in which all that she sees and touches is scaled to her human identity. And she is the most gracious resident of that place. But the wind is malign and relentless. You don't tell us the reason for its ire and its targetting you. It thus comes across to us readers as particularly alienating. These are both visionary poems, but the first one treats nature in the Romantic sense of our partner, our relative, our home. EL VIENTO is nature in its vicious, destructive, unforgiving appearnce. And we live in a universe of both Natures. BTW Your poems this afternoon have caught me in a philosophical mood. I'm interpreting them thematically. B-U-T this poem has a wonderful flow to it, the tone is intimate and pulled me into the situation. When I realized the wind had actually knocked you down, I wanted to rush forward to help you get up. Of course, then EL VIENTO would stalk me too, but so it goes - FRIENDSHIP IS STRONGER THAN FEAR!