Thunder and lightning in Seattle

By Jack Brummet

Midnight, Friday:  What a great lightning storm tonight—from giant balls to hydra-limbed bolts raining down, and sometimes looking like they were shooting up—*from*, and not to, earth [1]. The lightning dances across the sky and I hear the muffled, slow-rolling thunder circle in the clouds overhead, and I'm swallowed up in the soft percussion of the warm falling rain.

[1] Someone just told me that lightning goes both up AND down.

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