Today’s prompt: “write a poem that starts from a regional phrase, particularly one to describe a weather phenomenon.” (http://www.napowrimo.net/day-ten-7/)
Raining Cats and Dogs
It’s raining cats and dogs
like a grotesque Biblical judgement,
Vicious and violent and unprecedented.
Dogs were the god of storms
and cats were witches riding the wind:
the vicious sounds of animals fighting.
The idea of household pets
hurled from the skies
and violently dashed upon the ground
Is only slightly more horrifying
than the sight of drowned animals
floating along on vicious flood waters,
Streams swollen and choked
with debris and casualties:
bloated corpses from violet nature.
It’s raining cats and dogs
but not literally, thank god,
because that would unbearable:
Vicious and violent and unprecedented.
John the Librarian 