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Come Lightning, Thunder,
Dance on high!
Rumble loud in the atmosphere
Shake the ground
Announce the coming rain, water for the thirsty Earth
First Storm, Monsoon herald
Of cloudbursts
Shout loud the wind-bourn gift
Tumbling from the sky
Profuse, cool, wet relief for parched creatures
Fat drops spatter, dash down
Making red-brown mud,
Fill the air with the dust-green scent
Of wet creosote
Sage and saguaro, breathing in the rain.
May this be but the harbinger,
The leading edge
Of a season fecund with storms
Rain enough to fill arroyos,
To water well the desert and all that dwells therein.