Salutation
But then the best forecasters…
were those people
who managed to shade guesswork
into intuition, a very different order
of information management.
Windswept:
The Story of Wind
and
Weather
Marq
de Villiers
You know, all
you have to do
is pinch that
last capital D
in DEAD, pinch
it between
your thumb and
first finger
(or if it’s a
bandage needs
changing, lift
it from the left
foot) squeeze
it or pinch it
and watch how it pops
and watch how it pops
at the belly
and now DEAD
isn’t DEAD at
all, it’s DEAR,
it’s a letter
you meant to
write when
there was time,
when symbols
were something else,
when roots
licked rain,
when the still middle
of a night was
bright with light-
ning
before that forecast
of rain
they said was
coming, the one
you ignored,
leaving the laundry
on the line
until morning.
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