Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Out of the Blue



Anything can happen.

You know how in summer

Thunderheads must build

Before lightning strikes the ridge?

Well, once in July lightning

Shook the field in which he stood

From out of a clear blue sky.


Anything can happen.

You know how in summer

You can fall in foolish love and did

Seeing more than what was there?

Well, once in thunderstruck July

She loved him back tenfold

And the ground gave way.







—a riff on Seamus Heaney's "Anything Can Happen."