04-17-2015, 03:15 PM
Dry lightning like echidna spikes
strikes along the ironstone ridge
above Peak View, desiccated land
stripped back to dirt and rock.
Wind gusts twirl dust devils
down along the valley.
Thunder grumbles
from clouds like bruises
as if touching earth
hurts the sky. Slowly
the muttering dies.
Breaking silence,
a lone crow calls.
A gust screams past
raping white rose petals.
A wave of hail beats a tattoo
on windows, sharp and solid
as thrown gravel.
Rain whips the walls, windows melt
heavy with water, translucent, surreal.
Light darkens. The house flinches
as thunder vollies, strobe lightning
momentarily freezes trees
lashed sideways by the gale.
Shaken, deaf and dumb,
inundated, you pour
as floodwater down cemetery hill,
destroyed and renewed
by the storm.
strikes along the ironstone ridge
above Peak View, desiccated land
stripped back to dirt and rock.
Wind gusts twirl dust devils
down along the valley.
Thunder grumbles
from clouds like bruises
as if touching earth
hurts the sky. Slowly
the muttering dies.
Breaking silence,
a lone crow calls.
A gust screams past
raping white rose petals.
A wave of hail beats a tattoo
on windows, sharp and solid
as thrown gravel.
Rain whips the walls, windows melt
heavy with water, translucent, surreal.
Light darkens. The house flinches
as thunder vollies, strobe lightning
momentarily freezes trees
lashed sideways by the gale.
Shaken, deaf and dumb,
inundated, you pour
as floodwater down cemetery hill,
destroyed and renewed
by the storm.