Caesura

Sheets of heat lightning slice the night

kung-fu style

I lean into the blare of the tornado siren

From the window I see you

in the middle of a street

Your skirt like a hula-hoop of flames

Matthew Guenette
Copyright © 2002

Matthew Guenette teaches Composition and Literature at Heartland Community College in Normal, IL. He received an MFA from Southern Illinois University in 1999.