Mountain Storm

The frenzied swirls and eddies,
cool, clear languid pools, the
white-capped froth of mountain
streams pour relentlessly down
perpendicular rough slopes
whose elemental stunted trees
glitter with a storm's ravages,
so recently unloosed, a torrent
from the black glowering roof of
the world in a wildly furious night
of thunderous clamour.  As air
masses confronted one another,
the hot, dry challenging the force
of the cool moist, they unleashed
belligerent fury releasing pellets
of stinging ice, then shafts of
relentlessly pelting rain, washing
the atmosphere of volatile heat, 
battering trees, as wind plucked
deeply entrenched roots from the
slurried soil to slash the landscape
with the scars of forest corridors
cleared of green to lay bare the
slopes and urge an avalanche of
soil-loosed rock falls, creating
new passage for the crazed water
sluices gathering furious energy,
roaring down the mountain.