September 24*

winter augury

strange pregnant
lenticular clouds
too crisp in detail

holding with
hazy smear of
indeterminate fog

cats stay in the box
for the morning
in trance

midafternoon sun
vaporizes all
clouds have disappeared

but are not gone

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem is included in The View from Lummi Island.

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