Word Storm

following an invisible current,
coursing in on a celestial jet stream
from Heaven's vault of locution -

following the path of the wind,
one gets snagged on a lightning bolt
which gets deposited in the brain -

it ignites a spark of creativity
which results in a chain reaction:
there is a veritable shower of verse -

one
then another
and then another -

and another and another,
thundering from my pen
sofasticanhardlykeepup -

since that stormy september day,
there have been many floods.
i type as fast as they arrive -

sometimes more than one event occurs
pouring from the mind to the fingers
and rising before you on the screen -

i hope you
and i
don't drown -

(c) 2004, Revised 2008, Karla Dorman