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She dances on the driveway

barefoot, and thunder-washed,

her white shirt translucent as ghost,

her jean shorts now charcoal-gray and sealed to her skin.

She is spinning, laughing, as the sky opens onto her.

Lightning bolts around her, wreathing her in its gold,

like the feathers of a phoenix.

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