Read the poem carefully. You crash over the trees,
you crack the live branch—
the branch is white,
the green crushed,
each leaf is rent like split wood.
You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash—
you have broken off a weighted leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone.
–“Storm,”
H. D.
Which phrases show that the storm in the poem is destructive? Choose three correct answers.
“crack the live branch”
“the branch is white”
“swirl and crash”
“in the wind”
“it is hurled out”