It's Still Life

27.09 – 417 Watts

The old woman
in cloudy England
puts solar panels on her roof.

Her son says it’s madness;
it’s always cloudy here.

She puts the weather
to work anyway.

Weather
used to be something she talked about.

Now it does
household chores.

28.09 – 0 Watts

at dusk
the weather clocks off.

the old woman’s new solar panels
make nothing in the dark
except for a warm hatchery
for pigeons.

one brood fledges,
another is laid.

renewable.

the old woman
believes in renewable energy
not renewable pigeons.

fix: solar panel bird mesh

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— from The Old Woman’s Weather

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