Storm Chaser Melanie Hess last week the riverbed cracked,its veins like autumn leaves,plows and combines idle in fieldsdinosaurs on the verge of extinction
my joints simmer with arms and legs splayed star-shaped in an old plantation rockerI imagine the wettest place on earth and watch a scout ant migrate up the kitchen tap in search of water for the queen
the sky shifts moodreleasing a peaty potpourrithe squall appears windward.
I grab the monkey on my backwe gobble the rainjabbering whirling eddiesmy skirt swirling like Carmen Miranda

More from Melanie ↓

• @alohamonkey on Instagram
• Her book Bread and Bone is out now

You can listen to me read Picture This by Melanie over on Instagram @rembrandts.cure