5 August 2023 (the sound)

the sound of laughter

between thunderclaps

Friday night

22 September 2022 (storm)

storm surge

gulls ride the waves

of thunder

25 July 2022 (Monday morning)

Monday morning

the thunderstorm rolls in

right on time

23 November 2020 (lightning)

November storm

the early dark briefly lit

by lightning

2 July 2019 (storm)

passing squall

pine needles spell out

the wind’s short story

30 June 2019 (lightning)

pre-dawn lightning

a disturbing dream

starts to make sense

May 24: Flowering plum

spring thunderstorm 

how I covet

my neighbor’s plum tree

October 8: Lunar eclipse

Lunar eclipse
hidden by a thunderstorm
I'm wide awake

June 17: Thunder

Thunderstorm rolled through this afternoon. You could feel the tension in the air before the sky began to rumble, then the release of rain.

Roll up car windows.
Phoebe says its name, frantic,
as thunder rumbles.

August 16: Thunder

Awakened in the middle of the night by a very loud thunderclap, followed by more rumblings and the rush of a downpour. I say "middle of the night" but the sky was lightening and I had no real idea what time it was. The clock seemed to say 5:00 a.m.-ish (I can barely see without my contacts in), so after I got up and unplugged my computer (my one conditioned response to a thunderstorm), I was able to crawl back in bed and fall asleep for a little while longer. The cat seemed utterly unconcerned. Which I find interesting, because some loud noises do get her attention--she'll at least look up when a motorcycle goes by, for example. And just now she reacted a bit spastically to the honkings of a flock of geese flying over, anxiously rushing to the window to see what the clamor was. But thunderstorms apparently don't faze her.

Ah, to be a cat
and be able to sleep through
thunder, anything.

July 2: Rumblings

Sometimes it's challenging to determine what's internal and what's external, leading to the mind-bending conclusion that my digestive system and the sky full of towering gray storm clouds are both parts of some grand, rumbling whole...

Summer afternoon--
is that my stomach growling
or rolling thunder?