THE COURTSHIP OF WINDS

Sam Culotta​

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Global Warning

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our summer morning sky draped 

in blue and decorated with cream puff 

clouds is the visual voice of peace

 

the canopy of our Chinese magnolia 

and the tips of crape myrtle stir 

as evidence of a halting breeze

 

high above a soft chain of small 

striated clouds gives proof  of powerful

upper atmospheric winds 

 

nature does not aim to console us

here below but reminds us that this

beautiful dome appears also over

 

land pitted by bombs and littered by

the helpless victims of leadership

so weak it becomes Evil itself.

 

there, no birds sing nor dogs bark

in the tenuous silence of daybreak

the suffering so loud it can be heard

 

here beneath the same summer sky

with the same beautiful clouds

and birdsong  in the trees.

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