White Thunder part 3
Nature infrequently pauses to allow for
processing its beauty. I try to
write the words in my thoughts, but I thought and I missed it. I tried to count one one thousand 2 one
thousand and so on, to scientifically measure the distance between each
lightning and my feet, but I couldn’t decipher who bore the crash boom thud or crack. Its constant and appropriately here in
Belize should be named white thunder.
I want to videotape it, and so I stand on a raised screen patio pretending
not to be nervous holding the videotaper.
The camera cannot pick up the strobe lightning, and it definitely
doesn’t pick up mist that is hitting my face through the screen. The jungle is still alive, but I stand and wonder where are all the moths that fly around the lights that light up the path to the room? Are they under a mile wide jungle leaf? Or do they air swim under a wall
of water? To think of a place
where people mix blood and milk for hydration. It’s impossible standing in the rainforest to think of such. It’s unfathomable it could be the same
planet. Where are the monkeys that persistently drop logs on my tin roof? I fancy the thought of sitting in a tree with them and watching the show. The lightning strikes and it inaugurates raining from the ground
up. It’s absolutely stunning and I have never seen a display of lightning such
as this one.


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