storm on the island

• ‘spits like a tame cat turned savage’
• ’we are prepared: we build our houses squat’
• ‘this wizened earth has never troubled us’
• ‘leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale’
• ‘forgetting that it pummels your house too’
• ‘strange it is a huge nothing we fear’
• dramatic monologue emphasises their loneliness and they have no reply but also how they are fighting as a community