• When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

    Ted Kooser: When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.
    Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser (2013). “Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press