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Rated: 13+ · Book · Biographical · #1317094
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
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#1025557 added January 28, 2022 at 8:18pm
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Micro 100 #4 "Song of the flood" [336] (28.01.2022)
"Words won't come."

"Should they?"

"It's due tomorrow, 11 a.m."

Preuk looked at the river rising. It would flood and it hadn't stopped raining. He sighed. Why didn't words burst forth?

San had heard this before. Never-ending rain and worry... until the sun broke out.

"The rice fields seem happy and the buffalo don't mind."

"Yes, uncle, but I'm a bird sheltering under a mango leaf and I'm hungry."

"Write about that."

So Preuk did: wet, hungry, drip drip drip, the "Song of the flood".

The next morning Preuk sloshed through the mud. He could hear birdsong as clouds parted.
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