Ball Lightning

Randall Jarrell said “A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning.” In this journal, we publish evidence of writers being struck by lightning.

Feb 19

As a child, I stood
in front of the slide projector,
blinking in its white-hot lights.
And it was so intoxicating, being…

I found Jesus
sitting in the sanctuary.
He was in the back row
passing notes and laughing.