Iris

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moments musicaux: a summer storm

thunder booms and echoes into the distance--
a timpanist's sforzando entrance and roll that diminuendos--
allowing the sound of rain to crescendo from the silence left behind;
fat drops patter against the roof and the porch and the leaves
in increasing tempo，
culminating in sheets pounding against the poor earth
and then--
subito pianissimo,
an impromptu calm.