Gloves, coats ‘n’ sweaters:
barely sixty for cold’s sake!
Sanford now shivers!
Category: Cold-Front
“Sanford ‘Gears Up’ For Near-IceAge!” (V #1)
gloves, coats ‘n’ sweaters:
barely sixty, for cold’s sake!
Like ‘Frisco Summer!
“Oh, What To Do?”
Brisk chill wind gusts South
across the long shallow lake:
cover fruiting crops?
“Tee-n*-Shorts Today”
The pre-cold bundled:
it’s not even fifty yet –
I get such strange looks!
*(Please, Auto-Correct, I want Tee And (-n-) Shorts not Teen-Shorts. WP could use some more buttons for we Neanderthals and semi-practicing Luddites – or is that Practicing Semi-Luddites, and if so, would a Luddite know a Semi from a cabbage?))
“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.)
“Pebble-Paved Clouds”
pebble-paved low clouds
crawl no’reast across my sky
even eagles quiet
“Grey Dawn” Tanka 312
grey dawn, cool breeze,
but we are promised no rain:
water tomorrow?
sounds like the long-awaited
return of soup-n-baked bread!
“Grey Dawn”
grey dawn, cold front breeze,
but we are promised no rain:
water tomorrow?
“Too Fast For Rain”
clouds too fast for rain
and blue peeks between tatters –
the near-chill welcome!
“Temps Drop, Fires Start” Tanka 133
Waiting for the rain,
eat a buncha book and laze:
crisp clean light chill breeze
sings soft counterpoint to loud
and angry red-truck’s sharp wail!
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