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Category: Cloudwatcher
“Oh, What To Do?”
Brisk chill wind gusts South
across the long shallow lake:
cover fruiting crops?
“Tee-n-Shorts Today” Tanka 412
The pre-cold bundled:
it’s not even fifty yet –
I get such strange looks!
One androgynous toothpick
look ’bout hypothermic!
“Pellucid”
pellucid skies show
a pacific sun behind
archipelagos
“This Pastel Morning” Tanka 355
This pastel morning
the cotton flocks graze across
a pale blue pasture.
Their undershot gray bellies
o’erpowered by golden fleece.
“The Fahrenheits Are Back”
First taste ‘o ‘Forties”
on slate to see us real soon:
should I switch to my long johns*?
*(at approximately 45 F I switch from shorts – and short teeshirts – to long jeans and long-sleved cotton tee shirts of varying weights and if the wind will be cutting mayhap long johns which survived my Parris Island Marine Corps boot camp issue in 1967. The wind-whipped waves of Lake Monroe despite the cutting breeze and moistly frigid air is almost as sure a magnet to me as a fulsome moon seen first at dusk and later just past sunrise. We had clouds overhead for the so-called Super Moon, but any season full moon sits (or lays) me down with glee and wonder.)
“Steady Stratocumulus Stream Past”
steady nor’easter
fetched pebble-clouds stream past.
Red-tail hawk on perch!
“Breaking Cloud Cover”
cloud cover just breaks
my greens, late okra sunbathe
i sit in the shade
“I Know Why My Hibiscus Sleeps”
The pale, weak cream sun
spread with thin butter over
Sleeping Hibiscus
“Pebble-Paved Clouds”
pebble-paved low clouds
crawl no’reast across my sky
even eagles quiet
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