Dry Storm Dragon
          

It’s not uncommon, he says,

for cumulonimbus clouds
to have anthropomorphic
or zoomorphic qualities.

All I want is to keep seeing
that dragon, fierce
benevolence in his murky eyes.

Cumulus clouds do the same, he adds,
but in much less dramatic ways.
Cumulus to cumulonimbus
is like the calm before a storm.

As he speaks I feel the gathering
of those fluffy whites

into towers of darker forms,

forming that smoky coiling tail.

It’s the solar heating, he continues,

producing unusual currents.
Clouds give us clues
to atmospheric conditions.

I reflect on the atmosphere cooling

around us now.  He talks then

of prisms and rainbows and

declares, It’s like evidence
of unrest in the heavens above.

I want only to rest

in the presence of omens. 

  




© 2008 DJ Gaskin