One of a series of collaborative NFTs by digital artist Paul Petersen, aka SphericalArt, and Charlotte Hart, poet.
MAELSTROM
Butterfly wings open in jungle heat
that morphs into a humid gale
over warm seas.
Violent torrents travel thin altitudes
across a thousand miles.
Torment attacks in howling rain.
Dread power cracks, fury roars,
the wind engine
sucks whole trees out of earth
roots exposed.
Houses splinter.
Cars lift, driven by air
to crash somewhere
unmapped.
A shoe speeds in pelting rain,
walls breathe.
A mother covers her whimpering child
in an empty tub.
Men pray who never prayed.
Deafening darkness,
searching flashlights, fear.
The dog whimpers.
Snakes and swallows lift
together tossed unnatural
in nature disassembling itself.
Maelstrom flood and roar
chaos shoots a single straw
through a glass window
like a needle.
