The Weather is Utterly Cosmic

Bob, , ,

The moon fills these shoes, spells a simple long look
Over the city, like the poetry of a monocular.

The moon is a forgery and covered in brambles,
But cede it will not to anything but pulse and breath.

An ambush of silliness, a clothesline transcending laundry
From which I hang a self of wobbled walks and bits of rainy wind.

The weather is utterly cosmic,
I prance alone in a towel in the cosmos of spring,
Under the summer sky, without anywhere else good to be.

12 thoughts on “The Weather is Utterly Cosmic”

  1. I like the moon covered in brambles and the playful prance of the last two lines but the gem of the poem for me is that ‘clothesline transcending laundry’ hung with ‘a self of wobbled walks and bits of rainy wind’ — a bit like this morning 🙂

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  2. I just got back from a weekend bus trip to a small town near the us/canadian border….super quiet except for the sound of rain hitting things. I mention it because of the theme here, in this poem, the weather as cosmic, a wonderful thought and that “ambush of silliness” hits home in the way travel can do that, takes us out of our routines and comfort and causes a bit of “transcending laundry” drudgery.

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      1. Thanks for the link Bob. I’m watching it now. Nice history of Milwaukee and great footage of architecture.

        Another good video is about four wisconsin guys, one of them Bob Watt from Milwaukee. It’s called One Million Years in Three Seconds. I think the link opens up in the middle because I’m often watching the Bob Watt part, but you just have to scroll back to the beginning to watch it all. The whole documentary is fantastic.

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      3. Thanks again for the link to the 414 Milwaukee video. I just finished watching it. I love it when they spontaneously come across the main dude’s friend, that artist sitting on the steps and him talking about undoing stereotypes, but I have to admit brats and beer is almost always good.

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      4. I though that part was cool too. Like you said, spontaneous. I could see that happening in Buffalo too. It’s a smaller city were you get to know a lot of people.

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