Clouds - Kerry Lichlyter

[Larry Robinson]

Thanks, Ed.
> On May 15, 2016, at 7:26 AM, Larry Robinson <Lrobpoet at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> Clouds
> 
> My brother is a birder.
> He has a life list 
> and when he adds new birds
> it’s considered polite
> to feign excitement.
> And I am excited
> for him.
> 
> But I’m a cloudspotter.
> So far this is a much less
> legitimized pasttime. 
> When I remark on a cool cloud
> or a sky phenomenon,
> and there are lots—
> halos,  coronas, glories, sun dogs,
> cloud iridescence, virga, fallstreak holes—
> cumulus, stratus, cirrus
> and their genus and species and varieties—
> it tends to make people self-conscious.
> Or silent.
> Or bored.
> Kinda like when I used to
> quote Shakespeare to my kids.
> They hated it.
> Still do.
> 
> What’s wrong with Shakespeare?
> Doesn’t anybody look up?
> 
> One of these days
> The Cloud Appreciation Society
> will have a meet in the US.
> Like minds
> who like clouds.
> On that day
> Earth’s water atmosphere
> will get its due.
> 
> No frenetic birds flitting from branch to branch,
> but slow-moving arabesques
> of water vapor and droplets 
> and ice crystals.
> 
> Which remind us
> as the stars do at night
> that life
> is sometimes          
> 
> miraculous.
> 
> 	- Kerry Lichlyter
> 
> 
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