THE COURTSHIP OF WINDS

Don Thompson

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Fog Therapy

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Two or three days of rain

have calmed us, and the wind

has let it soak in for once,

 

rather than blowing the earth dry;

has slouched off to brood

in the canyons east of here.

 

Now it’s cold and damp, the air

holding so still a spider’s 

convoluted web wouldn’t tremble.

 

Fog rises, suffusing us

with a glow thicker than darkness,

putting blackbirds back to sleep.

 

We slow down in weather like this

and look inward, not really

wanting to see much.

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