a dark and stormy night

This is a picture, not taken, of a dark and stormy night, sodium vapor street lights muddying the night sky’s palette to the faux color produced by an old inkjet printer without a black cartridge, jagged, achromatic bolts of lightning strobing on the horizon, distorting my peripheral view to look like a flip book movie consisting of two slightly offset views, alternating together for a brief view of an alternate reality, enshrouded in a misty haze…