SHELTER OF THE STORM

 

 

Drawn to a summer storm
built out of blue clouds
at dusk, I am swept up

into the gusts before
the dark sky cracks
with jagged light

all around touching down—
distant rumbles roaring
closer by as the earth

shakes. I am alive within
it and myself, perhaps
afraid, but exhilarated

to have escaped
the latest episode
to miss the evening news.

 

One response to “SHELTER OF THE STORM

  1. Lenore Brashear's avatar Lenore Brashear

    I; would rather watch and feel a lightning storm any time than watch the evening news!!! Darn, we didn’t get any, only clouds.

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