The Second of March

ON THE FIRST of March, the wind came aright
it blew all the way from the dusk to the night;
and the night till the dusk! It blew long and hard
it blew the trashbins back into the yard;
blew the hubcaps off the junkyard cars
it blew in the clouds to blot out the stars;
then it cleared out the sky in the fiery west
it blew everything clean, and clean is the best.

- Ephrem Antony Gray