Justin Runge
Forecast
Everything is legless,
trapezoidal, traveling.
Night provides a few
feet below its smoke.
Drivers use their knees,
tend to buttoned things.
The meteorologist
calls it a square dance.
Counts the seconds
from thunder to bolt.
Weather is blackening.
It shakes out its knives.
Kids and kites take cover.
You ask for lightning.
The runaways end up
somewhere terrifying.
Sometimes, you just need
to hear a voice in song.
Justin Runge lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he serves as poetry editor of Parcel. He is the author of two chapbooks, Plainsight (New Michigan Press, 2012) and Hum Decode (Greying Ghost Press, 2014). His work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, Portland Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He can be found at www.justinrunge.me.
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