Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Ode to a Lightning Post:

Oh, lightning post. This is your ode. I found you in the evening, awash with a pour yet to come, and while you could have been made dry by the lightheat, your wetness kept returning the current to your body. I took you home and made you soup. All that weather surely bore you under it, and so I tucked you into bed and prayed for your wellness.

Oh, lightning post. Lightning post. I was the bride of quietness, nightly ravishing. You were my husband, parched tongue; to fill and be filled. Lightning post, where have you gone? Lightning post, you have always been possible.

To discover an order as of
A season, to discover summer and know it,

To discover winter and know it well, to find
Not to impose, not to have reasoned at all,
Out of nothing to have come on major weather,

It is possible, possible, possible. It must
Be possible.

(Wallace Stevens)