This Would Be Me

 Melissa is hosting Poetics in the dVerse Poets Pub ~ our poetic challenge ~ the ‘unpunctuated’ poem.

while others dive 

beneath blankets

counting seconds between 

flash and boom

i fling open 

the curtains

hostess with the 

mostest

thunder arrives wearing 

muddy boots

lightning shows off like 

my cocky cousin at a reunion

and i sit there grinning

the neighborhood oddity 

with weather in her heart

it's called ceraunophilia

which sounds suspiciously 

like a tropical disease

but it simply means

when the sky throws 

a tantrum

i feel strangely at home

in my element