A Love Affair Plus Thunder – John Grey

Sometimes there’s a storm

and lightning cleaves a maple tree in two,

and one half crashes through

the roof of a house

and the other demolishes a neighbor’s garage.

But sometimes, it hasn’t rained in months

and the land and the reservoir

are crying out from thirst,

and this sudden downpour

spurs the soil to growing,

fills those dams

with water to the top.

Fact is

nothing loves the Earth like weather.

I’ve witnessed the results.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in That, Dunes Review, Poetry East and North Dakota Quarterly with work upcoming in Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Thin Air, Dalhousie Review and failbetter.