Uploaded October 2010 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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'Poems for Piano: The Piano Music of Marion Brown.' Compositions by the late Marion Brown, inspired by the work of Jean Tommer, and played by Amina Claudine Myers.

Storm Ending
by Jean Toomer

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
Great, hollow, bell-like flowers,
Rumbling in the wind,
Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . .
Full-lipped flowers
Bitten by the sun
Bleeding rain
Dripping rain like golden honey—
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.