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Snapshots from Rehoboth

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A LIGHT STORM OVER THE OCEAN

A light storm over the ocean!
As if day were trying to wedge itself back in.
Flashes over clouds are like flashes over mountains.

It’s all to the left of the balcony.
I want it here, directly in front of me.
Yellow-white silent batteries.

I think of northern lights, sunstorms.
The week has been unseasonably warm
Preparing the silent lightning storm.

Over the Atlantic, half the sky explodes.
Under it the humble ocean flow
Makes thin white ribbons and bows.

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Sheet lightning, heat lightning: Who knows
What it is, where it arose,
And why, when I look at it, my heart grows

Tense and excited, and wants more and more
Of its cloud-to-cloud offshore
Brilliantine. A cooling front formed

Hours ago, when the air was heavy.
Now, as the front moves in, a steady
Wind blows me back from the balcony.

After days of heat, a hard cold wind!
And the sheeting of clouds without rain.
A light storm over the ocean.


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Margaret Soltan, June 10, 2011 12:05AM
Posted in: poem, snapshots from rehoboth

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