A Stormy Welcome Reread lines 47-49, on page 4. What does this
image describe?
The speaker approaches a party that her now
neighborhood has organized to meet her family
I woke this morning to pouring rain
and a bird belting out her fathery blues
Not rain like it rained in the place we just came from
that was only chilly, misty, Common rain
ospolite and vague as a ticket conductor
on the trains we used to take book there, back then
This is crashing, angry tropical Singaporean rain
more like a tomper tantrum thon mere weather
jump when the thunder bellowe,
and the lighting strikes the pre-dawn dark
like the furious flash of an eye
The speaker observes the flowering trees on the
sidewolk dropping their blossoms,
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The speaker's new neighbors groot her with a local
custom that is unfamiliar but kind,
The speaker's new neighborhood is full of
skyscrapers covered with yellow blossoms
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