CLOUDWATCHER
( for David Olaf Carney )
A cloud
gets the ****.
Becomes a camel.
Another **** sees it
transform into a dromedary.
Now a kidney!
Then as on a whim
becomes a Picasso
or some such
thing.
Sometime there's
shape and sense.
Sometimes none.
We make up names
for the one's with none.
Here for instance
stolen
from an old religious tract
THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING.
And here, from the same
"...the cloud of forgetting."
This one
we dub in Ancient Egyptian
"HPRR!"
"rising from....coming into being
itself.:
And this one" "HPR!"
"...to become...to change."
And while our minds run on
the Egyptian thing
why here is Nepthys
Goddess of the Death
that is not
Eternal.
Here Horus
Lord of things to come.
This here cloud
we give the moniker
THE AGENBITE OF INWIT
before it becomes
an Inuit.
Now an anvil and a hammer
in a Black Country summer
"Gie-in’ sum ‘ommer!"
we command it
commanding the skies.
Now here again
a nothing.
Clouds bring forth
not the gentle rain
that falleth from Heaven
but...thought
whatever the mind
imagine.
And here
why here
is a cloud
that is just
a cloud.
