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Rod & Sunny: Photo by Bob
Gentry 8/5/1999
A Thought for Today
The only thing you cannot bring to love is negligence.
Entry IV: Then
Across the street from where we lived in Alamo, a poplar tree was split straight down the
middle by a single bolt of lightning. I saw it. I did. A summer evening, thirty years or
more ago, an ageless poplar pierced and sliced in half while I sat rocking in the porch
swing, wet down by rain. Even after that, or so it seemed, Grandpa would threatened us
with lightning. If we didn't eat our creamed asparagus or boiled codfish, if we set out
late for school, chased the chicken or stole tomatoes from the backyard garden; some
blue-white flash would sneak up on us and cut us down.
Lightning didn't, doesn't frighten me. Thunder did, does.
Best of all I like the rain their union makes. This summer I hope to build a porch and
later on a hammock or a swing.
- From "Come To Me In Silence," 1973.
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