Lightning Strike

My favorite poem is called Lightning Strike by Jim Christ

it stands twisted
as if dodging bullets
in slow mo and in fact
had on several occasions
age old earth moored trunk
reaching and cascading upward
in suspended freeze frame stuttering
when winds make it tremble
it is bark covered branches of lightning
emerging wooden bright
and filling sky
reaching out with jagged strokes
from earthen cloud below


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