June greets us with hot days.
Plants thrive blooming, growing more each day.
Grass green, mowers drone.
Trimmers chime in.
Thunder claps echo in the distance, a storm approaches.
Bright flashes of lightning.
Trees bend, yielding to the mighty wind.
Hail stings as it hits.
Rainbows arch into a blue-gray sky.
Storms pass leaving
Wet cement behind.
Smells clean and fresh.
Storm sewers cannot remove
The rain deposited during the storm.
Which make the plants and grass grow green.
Trees once full of leaves, have lost some.
After the storm,
Downed leaves pile up, slow the flow
Of water.
Creating swirling streams.
“June Storm” was printed in Harvest Time, No. 5 of Inwood Indiana. Pick up the paperback from Prolific Press; the stories and poems published online are free to read here.
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