Where do we go when the earth starts shaking,

and the storm pulses your brain

to the click-clack of your teeth?

Well, just for a moment,

your soul blasts from your body like light exploded from stars,

long enough for your sizzling mind

to wonder if it will ever return

or float off on a one-way to ticket to torture or bliss or some other plane,

before it returns like a deep, sudden inhale.