thunder between glass the game for today is to catch one while in action, and hold it in sight for as long as possible until it streaks past behind a building. you follow the thunder. you spot the diffused jets of smoke. and then i found one:



everyone was doing it. in intersections while we waited for the light to change, while crossing the street, alongside corners for smokes and coffee. they scanned the blue for metal and glass other than buildings and steam.

practice for this weekend's air and water show had started. there it goes again! but i can't see it. a pedestrian with white hair laughed at me.

"you're never going to see one," he said, but we looked up the skies again.

"i already saw one! right there, by the train tracks, going this way!"



and we looked up again. there's only so much sky you can see from the ground along madison street, wells, franklin and wacker, and everyone across the street by the starbucks is looking up as well.

"i'm going to trip looking for one!" the man said.

i laughed, "i'm going to get hit by a car!"

and the light hadn't changed yet, so i looked up again. i heard thunder.  ¶ 8/17/2005 02:44:00 PM