Speaking of global warming, a poem by the fabulous Rae Desmond Jones of Sydney, Australia

St Elmos fire

As I drove into the storm

          Along Old Canterbury Road

Through volleys of rain

          Snakes of blue lightning danced

Along red tiled roof tops

         

Demons climbed the steeples

           & shimmied across the road

Whatever is up there was laughing

          With his mouth open

So I could see his tonsils

          On the other side of the earth

It’s twenty five below    

          & this is only the beginning

 

copyright 2010 Rae Desmond Jones