Watching Clouds in Oklahoma

there is a blazing white dragon
floating over here in the sunlight
it expands like a balloon filling up
slowly as i watch and there is a
herd of black horses thundering
rumbling directly overhead as if
this sky is just an endless prairie
to be trampled by hooves in a fit
of skittish frenzy i see the glory
of wet orange sunset splashing
through a hole in the sky tonight
trees thrash around like lightning
electric brew in an iron cauldron
these clouds don't know where
they're going trapped indecisively
heading north south east west
double exposures across the sky
i wait for the sizzle of rain to fall
it is tornado season in oklahoma

© 2005 J.A. Spahr-Summers

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