Hail

Young Nikolai took
photographs
of them falling from
the sky on his
new second hand
iPhone ..
He showed them
to us later,
before the crops had
sufficient time
to fully recover their
composure ..
Indeed, it seems they
had all been
flattened in a matter
of seconds ..
At least one cow
was killed
and every single one
of the village
terracotta pan tiles
had been
simultaneously
shattered along with
several unprotected
car headlights
and windshields ..
Actually, many
of the village girls
had said,
from where they hid,
some of those
hailstones, were as
big as a grown
man’s fist, but they
hit at least
a dozen times harder ..