Horace and the Thunder

Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter

Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter

Will mostly wait for clouds to gather head

Before he hurls the lightning? Well, just now,

He galloped his thunder-cart and his horses

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Across a clear blue sky. It shook the earth

And the clogged underearth, the River Styx,

The winding streams, the Atlantic shore itself.

Anything can happen, the tallest things

Be overturned, those in high places daunted,

Those overlooked esteemed. Stropped-beak Fortune

Swoops, making the air gasp, tearing off

Crests for sport, letting them drop wherever.

Ground gives. The heavens' weight

Lifts up off Atlas like a kettle lid,

Capstones shift, nothing resettles right.

Telluric ash and fire-spores boil away.