Today's Weather
by Marlene G. McNew
Oh for the clarity of temperate skies,
softly focused light
illuminating stable horizons.
Periwinkle is away today.
A high contrast storm rages
between black and white
pockets of high pressure air.
Frenzied wind whips in circles.
Absent the balance of in between hues,
a blizzard blocks daylight,
as if magenta had never existed
and the subtlety of Reseda gray green
had been imagined.
Where is neutral gray?
Shouldn’t it permeate the air?
Cool and warm values vie for dominance
without its unifying force.
Brown sky envelops breath, like mud
taking over a puddle.
Clouds promise thunder,
rain, rain and more rain.
The cooling ease of snow,
lilac and pale pink,
is nowhere to be found
except in the sunlit skies
that hide beneath eyelids.
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