Category: weather

• the dance before a storm (haiku)

  sorry – had some technical difficulties last night….

  summer wind teases
  lightly flirts, pirouettes,
  snaps lightning in time.

  July 20, 2011

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• quietly approaching storm (haiku)

  clouds are a soft grey
  zibeline scarf choking the
  neck of the city.

  March 9, 2011

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• coming home from the beach (impossible)

  i left the ocean
  crashing pulling, so
  oblivious, and i
  dragged my wreck of
  salt and hair and
  said goodbye to the
  grains and shells
  the jellies,
  surfers skaters punk kids
  drunks,
  drove out thinking, one
  child builds a fortress and
  guards it with her life
  while the other runs
  with knowledge that high
  tides will always win…
  left driving
  with “flashback weather classic rock”
  and tried to set in motion:
  the impossible comes to life.

  August 2, 2010

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• Man, City, Sky

  a similar feeling
  of sky darkening and quickening breath

  outside clouds gather and puff their chests
  as if to say with a roar
  I am here
  outside the smell of rain perfumes my lungs
  and soon thunder drives
  dangerously close

  tires grip the Jones Falls
  that last turn
  underpass by Penn Station and
  the sculpture of woman and man as one

  the feeling you get
  right after the city skyline opens
  and there skin prickles, shivers
  waits
  a storm a man
  a city that boasts many
  dangerous charms.

  April 15, 2010

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