A pennon floating down the jagged sky,

Dissolve the butter with a single blast

Until the quiet falls, a broken mast

Like giant hail that thrashes on the leads

I paralyse and rip the air to shreds,

I flash my sparks of forest-powdering noise;

The formidable fanfares that I poise,

Ominous heralds of catastrophe,

As grapes of cloudy vintage on a sea

Purple and swollen, lecherous for thirst,