It's Still Life

U is for Updraft (Cumulus Clouds) And those cloudspoured their grief on us, while Mama’s saying,Look up and see the face of God, and we were a little less afraidof drowning after that. For A-Z Challenge. Updraft: A small-scale current of rising air. If the air is sufficiently moist, then the moisture condenses to become…

T is for Thunderstorm Do ants stop, as I do,and listen to distant thunder roll. Do they lift their feet on hot sand. Do they know that come Julythey’ll sprout wings and fly. Do ants’ eyes narrow when lightning strikes. For A-Z Challenge. Thunderstorm: A local storm produced by a cumulonimbus cloud and accompanied by…

S is for Showers A crocus, the colour of mist,glistening andunfolding into sunlight,scented pink as hairspray. It’s she can’t dance weather, so she pulls the blinds. For A-Z Challenge. Showers: A descriptor, SH, used to qualify precipitation characterized by the suddenness with which they start and stop, by the rapid changes of intensity, and usually…

R is for Rain Clouds read like tea leaves.Heavy and dark as a monk’s robe.And the rain begins. The rain. I watch it fallin thick strokes of ink. All night.Wild rain.I close my eyes. And hope to sleep. For A-Z Challenge. Rain: Precipitation that falls to earth in drops more than 0.5 mm in diameter.…

Q is for Quality of Snow This snow is a decrescendo,it stops you cold in a shiver as the sun sits low and patient at the top of the hill. It’s simple-minded weatherfor throwing snowballs in hell. For A-Z Challenge. Quality of Snow is the amount of ice in a snow sample expressed as a…

P is for Phreatic Water Underfoot, flowing stony calm,this young glittering water, risingthrough earth,through the rooted deep, like a dark scarexploding. It’s trout in the creek weather, and crayfish in the mud. For A-Z Challenge. Phreatic Water: In hydrologic terms, water within the earth that supplies wells and springs; water in the zone of saturation…

O is for Outflow On the dark side of clouds, curledby sky, it heaves and roars,a flow of cold on a storm’s edge.It rumbles beneath, and then reels. It’s find some batteries weather. The clock has stopped. For A-Z Challenge. Outflow: Air that flows outward from a thunderstorm. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge. Declared theme…