there.

 

Chad Lietz

from Fallow

 

10:30 emergency bulletin-banner
worms across tv screen:

                                       KCCI-TV8 AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

 

                                    rumble, then
                                    electric light
                                    flicker

                                    (fiery veins of discharge
                                    galloping thunderheads)

            —Clay…

                        door swings open :: static surges around him

                                                neckcraned
                                                handspocketed

                        Young pigs scramble in open
                        nursery pens, banging feeder lids
                        squabbling—
                                                call & response in concert

 

                                    (discharge
                                                 thunder)

 

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