Antics in the Sky

Photo by Garth Manthe @garth_manthe

Johannesburg is renowned for it’s electrical storms in the summer. I remember those big black clouds moving in. It felt like somebody had shut the curtains and turned on a vacuum sealer. The air was being sucked out of the sky by the approaching weather front. You could feel the air pressure drop. The darkness was comforting in a way. The black sky tumultous and streaked with lightning. The lightning would come closer and the thunder become louder as it rolled through the heavens like great big waves - you could follow it with your eyes. It is so dramatic.

Antics in the Sky

The black sky, lightning bleached,

abducts the air and electrocutes

it to the ground with a crack.

Drama abounds in the stained sky.

Trees bowing to their master the wind,

Breaking under his demands. We

are all captive to the antics of the

god’s in the sky. Some awed, some floored.

- By Michael Stolt

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