blather
the_negative_sky
birdmad bus stop shelter

downtown

Mazzy_Star playing in my ears (She Hangs Brightly)

the steady, but not aggressive rush of the wind sending one of those subtle_chills through me

a little lightning and a look up Central Ave. to see the black clouds on the northern horizon suddenly turn into blue-grey inversions of themselves as if they had just been pulled from a roll of film

toward the west, where the last of the sun's warmth was ebbing, patches of green sky and grey clouds struggling in vain to form a tornado

red welts on my hands and neck from the short burst of hailstones falling less than gently in a west to east diagonal

here_comes_the_rain_again

driving, steady

now harder, now louder

but oddly soothing even in the torrent of noise

see me glowing like a safety flare,

burning bright

lit from within

even in the night,
even under the deluge
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