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Jean Toomer

Born in 1894, Jean Toomer is the author of Cane, a book of prose poetry describing the people and landscape of Georgia...
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		Poems about Storms
		A Crosstown Breeze by Henry Taylor

		Bermudas by Andrew Marvell

		History of Hurricanes by Teresa Cader

		Low Barometer by Robert Bridges

		Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion

		Of Politics, & Art by Norman Dubie

		Sleet by Alan Shapiro

		Stones in the Air by Anna Journey

		The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974 by Quincy Troupe

		The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson

		The Storm by Theodore Roethke

		White Water by John Montague

Storm Ending
by Jean Toomer

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . . Full-lipped flowers Bitten by the sun Bleeding rain Dripping rain like golden honey— And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.

1922