Summer Storms

Impact –
Lightning Strike
Of a flashbulb memory

I think of you every time it rains;
Back to the night the world quaked
Without moving an inch.

Impact –
The fresh blow
Of pain long ago.

Some days, I remember little else;
The words distant but the feelings still felt,
Raw and immediate and powerful.

Impact –
Thunderclap
Of flesh on flesh.

 

Jessie Gutierrez