By: Michael Seeger

 

Whiplash lightning

cracked then

 

thunder stuttered

rolling wildly with

 

rain falling through

the early morning

 

desert sky leaving

its wet print

 

before the day

broke over

 

the distant cloudy

horizon.

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Michael Seeger lives with his lovely wife, Catherine, and still-precocious 16-year-old daughter, Jenetta, in a house owned by a magnificent Maine Coon (Jill) and two high-spirited Chihuahuas (Coco and Blue). He is an educator (like his wife) residing in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, California. Prior to his life as a middle school English instructor, Michael worked as a technical writer for a baseball card company and served as a Marine infantry officer during Desert Storm. Michael considers poetry a passion and writing generally a way of life. Some of his poems have appeared recently either published or included in print anthologies like the Lummox Press, Better Than Starbucks, and The Literary Hatchet and as Finalists in several Goodreads contests.