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    First STORM AND THEREAFTER SCOTT CAIRNS was framed with matter-of-fact artifice. The thousand-plus storms since have turned FIRST STORM AND THEREAFTER SCOTT CAIRNS increasingly artless, arbitrary, bearing--every one of them--a numbing burst. The storms have been framed with such matter-of fact artifice, nor to such comic effect.

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    First STORM AND THEREAFTER SCOTT CAIRNS was framed with matter-of-fact artifice. The thousand-plus storms since have turned FIRST STORM AND THEREAFTER SCOTT CAIRNS increasingly artless, arbitrary, bearing--every one of them--a numbing burst. The storms have been framed with such matter-of fact artifice, nor to such comic effect.

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    FIRST STORM AND THEREAFTER

    SCOTT CAIRNS

    What I notice first within this rough scene fixed in memory is the rare quality of its lightning, as if those bolts were clipped from a comic book, pasted on low cloud, or fashioned with cardboard, daubed with gilt then hung overhead on wire and fine hooks. What I hear most clearly within that thunder now is its griefa moan, a long lament echoing, an ache. And the rain? Raucous enough, pounding, but oddly musical, and, well, eager to entertain, solicitous. No storm since has been framed with such matter-of-fact artifice, nor to such comic effect. No, the thousand-plus storms since then have turned

    FIRST STORM AND THEREAFTER

    SCOTT CAIRNS

    increasingly artless, arbitrary, bearingevery one of thema numbing burst. And today, from the west a gust and a filling pressure pulsing in the throatoffering little or nothing to make light of.

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