Lowering Skies

A solid month of overcast skies and rain can get to you even if you normally like that kind of weather.

Gathering in the sky
Dark cold and damp
Like children gathering
Sullenly before class
Stoic migrant workers
Waiting for the truck

 

Congealing in soiled
Clots of rough cotton
Vanguard of the dawn
Cheerless as soldiers
Marching to the front
Footsore and hungry

 

Muting dawn's fanfare
Softening the shrill
Guttural crow-speech
Cocksure swaggerers
Watched my a lone cat
Quiet as an old monk

 

Swollen with upcoming
Snows their bellies
Catch on skeletal limbs
Gaia's leaden tendrils
Asleep and dreaming
Of the sun and lovers

Reviews

[Jenny Nelson]

This really fits the weather we're having here now... and it's depressing. This is; however, a really good poem that I enjoyed reading and that was written very descriptively. I could picture the gloomy day as well as feel it. Loved the part about the cat. "Asleep and dreaming/Of the sun and lovers" - a pleasant and hopeful ending. This was really good!