Another Storm by Lorraine Caputo

broad bands of lightning shudder 

     across the midnight 

thunder grumbles from the north 

     & again a down 

pour, a laguna forms in 

     the patio below 

a rising river flows past 

     our grated doorway 

     then the storm roils off 

the thunder more distant now 

     bolts still brightening 

the heavens … & the rain, that 

     rain slowing … slowing …  

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Poet-translator-travel writer Lorraine Caputo’s works appear in over 250 journals on six continents; and 17 collections of poetry – including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and the upcoming Escape to the Sea (Origami Poems Project, 2021). She also pens travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She travels through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.