Impressions from a morning walk near Bogra. I had spent a hot and sleepless night after a wild storm had kept the windows rattling and the power off, so that the temperature in the hotel room was in the 30’s all night. Refreshing to see the rain washed and wind swept landscape in the morning. Meanwhile sleeping amphibians were also awakened by the first heavy rain shower of the season.

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Spawning

After rain-stormy night

morning reverberates

as axes chop storm felled wood,

and birds twitter sadly for windswept nests,

but all sound pales to the proud manly croak  

from lusty frogs in flooded

fields and ditches.

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