Today is unseasonably warm
The shed wall is thick with Asian beetles
We’ve had once-in-a-century floods
the past three years.
Running through my brain,
insistent as an unfed cat,
is the thought
this isn’t right
Is it too early to panic
or too late?
This is in response to dVerse Poets, whose writing prompt is a quadrille (44 words) including the word ‘early’.
In Other Words 
I like the stress of the very creative tension by the lines “insistent as an unfed cat” – this really is startling – but works so well to convey the “nagging” unease and pointed “distraction” – for the wondering, what’s going on out there, in the world, as nature does these “off-kilter” things ….
great pacing and observations that you’ve translated in a really new way – and in 44!
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Oh my! When everything is out of kilter, with Asian beetles and floods, it’s probably better to pay attention to the thought that something isn’t right. I love that you describe the thought as ‘insistent as an unfed cat’, Mary! Try not to panic 😉
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Red Passion
Flowers Waiting
For Fall Cool Distant
Here Last Few Autumn
Summers.. Nearer Here
in Present.. Close Enough
in Cold Front Way This Year
to Bloom NoW And Far Away
Enough For A Third Strongest
Low Pressure Hurricane Ever
In Very Close FL Panhandle
October
Way
Early
Warnings
Distant
EarS in Deed
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It’s not right… but neither is panic… there are things to do… we can do it 🙂
Love the description of the unfed cat…
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Ominous sounding: “We’ve had once-in-a-century floods
for the past three years.” I liked the reference to the unfed cat.
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One can feel the frantic nature of an unfed cat. Don’t panic – there is always hope that it isn’t too late to change what has begun.
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I hope you’re right!
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“Insistent as an unfed cat.” That’s some perfect imagery right there.
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Unfed cats get a kick up the bum from me 🙂
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They get fed from me.
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Try not to panic…yet….Liking the suspense and build up of those changes…
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no never too early to panic in my opinion. it helps with preparedness is we don’t get anxious
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