7:56 PM

Dancing! Dancing, I was dancing, on the beach in the lightning -- the wind freezing from heaven, then hot from the sun. The drops thin and whispering, then heavy, drowning pelts shouting moisture at the sand, the craters, tiny craters, exploded around my feet. I am so strong, to resist the power, to remain unopened by the rain.

I feel hail, panic quickly, before it fades with another hellish hot belch from the sky. The heated breath gives way to another light drizzle. I sense a rainbow, then clouds, angry and bruised, collapse again. Thunder...then the lightning! Soaked to my skin, shivering through bouts of sweat, I watch lethal ribbons scrawl across the sky, telling me bold alien language secrets. If only I could decipher!! If only I could understand!!

I run into the sea. So cold! The wind was cold, the sea is bitter, endless, the sea could suspend the smile of God. It does not look like the sea -- crests and waves are gone as the rain stipples the surface to that of ululant green toast...I pucker at the crannies, the sky opens again, I pucker at the sky, blow a wet kiss to the lightning as it crashes so close that the soft hair on my body rises out straight. I wonder what will happen if the ocean gets hit. I will die.

I run. I run for the shore, laughing, I run for home, laughing, I run for home, believing in everything.

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