RAIN
The
clouds crumble.
Lightning
cracks the troubled sky
with
its electric whip
and
brightens the sky with its silence.
Tall,
tough grasses bend.
That
smell of a storm seals
my
surroundings against
the
fever that stretched across the mountains
hours
before.
CROSS-SECTION
Worms,
mole-rats, incubating locusts,
and
the fossilized dig
or
wait in complete darkness.
They
live ever-tunneled in the meat and muscle
beneath
the skin of Earth.
Do
they feel sorry for themselves, encased and blind?
No!
They do not.
They
do four things:
1. rest…
2. work…
3. live…
4. emerge…
Jessica
Wiseman Lawrence studied creative writing at Longwood University, earning a
B.A. and participating in the university's M.F.A program. You can find her
recent work upcoming or published in Helen, Origins, Antiphon, and Third
Wednesday, along with many others. She lives in rural central Virginia, where
she is an office manager by day.
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