Cloudmaker

you who generate clouds
are indispensable

you fling them up
as if they were mere vapor

your visions
are unsurpassed

much like cloud yourself
you may be dark or bright
free and light or stretched
like a cowl under stars

in daylight, white grey saffron pink,
at night you draw curtains cross a moon
but you are not mere mist

as you stride and dance with wind
waving wings to fan the air
you cool it down to give us drink

Jim Culleny, 8/2/18