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.
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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