11-13-2022, 11:02 PM
We used to have Blue Northers,
where the northwestern sky would turn black
like an enormous bruise,
the wind would suddenly change from south
to north and we’d feel the temperature
drop 20 degrees in ten minutes
with rainstorms, sometimes tornados,
but climate change has put the bag on that.
Now they come in like a cripple dancing a tango,
in fits and starts, hardly any rain to speak of,
all the ferocity sucked out of them.
Or maybe I just don’t look to the sky anymore
spending all my time sniffing the ground
looking for a lifetime now mostly in the past.
where the northwestern sky would turn black
like an enormous bruise,
the wind would suddenly change from south
to north and we’d feel the temperature
drop 20 degrees in ten minutes
with rainstorms, sometimes tornados,
but climate change has put the bag on that.
Now they come in like a cripple dancing a tango,
in fits and starts, hardly any rain to speak of,
all the ferocity sucked out of them.
Or maybe I just don’t look to the sky anymore
spending all my time sniffing the ground
looking for a lifetime now mostly in the past.