Waking The Read

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for Pierre R.

Rolling thunder
followed bright
lightening flashes.

Stars crashed
in that other world.

A horse collapsed
onto the ground
and took wing.

Sundered reality
shimmered, distorted,
faltered, fractured.

Contrary images
shook the darkness:

dissonant, exploding
conflagrations of
laughing destruction.

War rocked heaven.
Earthquakes roiled
the empty garden.

Dead trees wept.

Nothing remained
but secret poets
chanting poems to
to deaf readers.

A singular instance
of perfect understanding.