Gentle Thunder, Heavy Rain

Morning mumbling of

low thunder rumbles greet me

then robust rainfall

Weather Check

Foggy sun provides

soft mist glare o’r thinly veiled

surroundings today

It’s about Negative Eighteen here with the wind chill

No school today

Humane society’s driving around, picking up any pets left outside

Sun’s out, though

white, snowy hills pile up onto each other through the distances

but cannot actually be seen separately without the delicate

trim of dark, lacy, tall, bare, winter trees that outline all

of the different, oval-shaped areas like eyelashes

sometimes thick, sometimes thin, long or short

with buildings serving as pupils

hypnotic

Morning, cold, white, snow dunes cover the

parking lot where the wind picks up the

delicate water crystals to swoop them

lacily, blanket-like, across the surface and

elevates the white gauze up into funnels of

varying thicknesses, speeds, and heights, on a

frosty January, Friday morning