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Jupiter’s Showers
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Jupiter’s Showers

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September 22, 2022
Painting of an oak tree being struck by lightning
Oak Being Fractured By Lightning, Maxim Vorobiev, 1842

Serra is a dusty writer from the Sonoran desert, though…

The sky strikes me with a jagged smile,
bellows with laughter to shake the world—
six, seven, eight seconds later—
from behind a cumulus mask of grey.
It is a dazzling expression of emotion:
a flash of crooked, radiant teeth;
a smile to illuminate the darkness.
Rippling across the eyes like watercolor
seeping along a canvas,
aching to touch the earth
for half a heartbeat.
Maybe pretending to be the incandescent roots
of some heavenly plant,
grasping for purchase
with fiery white determination,
it is raging, dazzling destruction,
blazing with cataclysmic creation.
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Serra is a dusty writer from the Sonoran desert, though they are currently living in the mountains of Northern Arizona. Their writing style seeks to inspire one to stop and listen to the heartbeat of the earth and the one in your chest and realize that it’s all the same rhythm. Currently, they have pieces published in Plants & Poetry Journal.

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