Remember
when the lightning
sent you down
the Great Pyramid at Cobá,
and a hard tropical rain obliterated
everything, even the jungle.
A real tempest, that one.
Thunder loud enough to crack stone,
Lightning too,
flashing through the black nimbus
like a semaphore
opening and closing,
light under dark, light under dark
We ran shivering
from the old VW
into a café
with too much window
and too much draft,
Remember
Bird Noetz 