Elizabeth Joy Levinson

(video from youtube.com by Catherine Galasso)

Except that it does.

I’m working on a poem about lightning, about those who have been struck multiple times.  The stories and the research I’ve been encountering are scarier than you would think.  Roy Sullivan, for instance, was struck seven times.  He finally killed himself in his early seventies, but because of unrequited love.

I’m fascinated with this story and I’m not sure why.  I’ve been looking at pictures of lightning burns, their spiderweb patterns stretching across a victim’s shoulder or back, the path of the lightning leaving its tracks…

(video from youtube by Catherine Galasso)