040721b

 

pink snow

insulation settles

after the storm

 

 

 

042711, tornado

120320e

 

we jump at each shelly clang
clammy wind

101020

 

a hard rain hits

storm drains ignored for years

water seeps up thru the floor

091620c

 

Hurricane City

circling the Great Red drain

on Jupiter

 

 

041520c

neighbors' tree
down in our yard
missed our tree
gray grancey's beard
just finished blooming

041420

fallen tree
lies bright green across the yard
doesn't know it's dead

121619

winter storm coming
we're nailing up the shutters
but I'm home

100119

Is there frost on those pumpkins,
Buried under 0.6 meters of the white stuff?
Not here in Alabama; we're
Trying to remember what rain was.
Welcome to our weather, Ireland--
Guess we won't be moving there
When the mercury boils.
The times they are achangin',
And I don't like it.

090319

I Keep Going Back To That Weekend

west wind blowing before the cloud wall,

dust streaming off the ridge

like smoke from a cold fire,

you ran out to the sky, arms up,

and me with my legs,

stumping along like a useless gob,

something reached down,

it wasn't the twister, that came later,

something leaned down from the high empty spaces,

a ghostly phosphorescent arm

I could only see with my bad eye,

it touched you and you were gone, it took you

to its bright cold home,

only then did the twister crest the hill,

roaring as it took juniper, smoke tree, prickly pear,

it leapt the valley and I fell in the dirt,

I lay there till dawn, but you never –

so I keep going back to that weekend,

but each time I do I forget,

I forget until it's over what I have to do,

and you are taken again and again.

071419

No word from daughter in Baton Rouge. The worst of the storm has passed. Maybe cell towers are down. We just got light rain here.

012919

teardrop clear flakes
are wet before they land
Alabama snow




No wonder the schools are closed.

122718d

shadows of branches
move on the wall
I listen for wind

101318b

in the storm's wake
nothing but dead fish
where homes had been

101018c

our early East Asian ancestors knew typhoons
they may have known enough
to head for the hills
when the signs showed one was coming
North America was colonized mostly from Siberia
and Western Europe
places that don't know this kind of storm
one of many unpleasant surprises
for multiple waves of colonists

101018

It looks like Hurricane Michael will possibly bring us enough rain to make up for the recent dry week, but no more than that. I hope people facing the brunt of the storm come through the next couple of days okay.

I have started laying out Dreams and Nightmares 110, a few weeks late, but I will have it put together soon.

092618

thunder of rain
on the metal roof
we talk louder

071018b

hailstorm
just in time for a new free roof
but drive the dented truck for years
pocket the insurance money for that one

070718

redbud down
across a visitor's car
soft and black inside

062918

the oaks
whipped in the storm
one fell

052818

storm moves east it sprinkles here