Storm


thunder nearing
a bay at the end
lightning lunges across
a viper sky
of seagulls

black birds cross

sea like a tractor fire
on a field of indian corn

a furnace of panic
in the ruts of the
land

raccoon dying on a
mountain of clouds
osprey roaring on a
belly of sin and fish

thunder beats the sand
a bay at the end of
nowhere
rain fills the
mouths of pines
fire opens there cones

oysters in the hoofs of deer
geese refined along a field

black birds invisible
black birds invest

deer dead on the road
gulls picking at snails

thunder hunts
fire burns
at the birth
of lightning