Coifs of lightning disentangle
under a black cloud lattice.
Thunder rustles to rude growl,
bracelets of leaf are trembling.
We're eastbound, hundreds of us
on this loosened buckle
of corrugated silver flash.
The rain attacks the window
in excoriating scrawls
slivering down into a sluice.
Red-shirted woman, run now,
over the yawning pool
that shivers with addition.
Blue-breasted runner, fly,
fly into clay-colored false dusk
that heaves with humid breath.
Escape from this wet hunger
that walks over us so indifferently.
We stumble nightward. Rain laces
our eyes shut. We're alone here.
Aug 10, 2022
Aug 10, 2022 at 5:26 PM UTC
Coifs of lightning disentangle
under a black cloud lattice.
Thunder rustles to rude growl,
bracelets of leaf are trembling.
We're eastbound, hundreds of us
on this loosened buckle
of corrugated silver flash.
The rain attacks the window
in excoriating scrawls
slivering down into a sluice.
Red-shirted woman, run now,
over the yawning pool
that shivers with addition.
Blue-breasted runner, fly,
fly into clay-colored false dusk
that heaves with humid breath.
Escape from this wet hunger
that walks over us so indifferently.
We stumble nightward. Rain laces
our eyes shut. We're alone here.
