Is the weather forecast the most eventful part of your local TV newscast? Well, p’ardner, you must live in Texas, where the weather changes at the drop of a ten-gallon hat.
Texas Weather
Oh it can roll in
Not like fog (what’s that?)
But more like a thick comforter
Of humid
Ready to wrap you
In a sweaty sheen
No matter how high you’ve cranked
The a/c
And it can pour down
In a fierce flash
The sky splitting
The air trembling
A storm to put all waterfalls
To shame
And it can clear
In a quick instant
The clouds retreating
Overtaken by bold brilliant blue
Like the very air
Is as clean
As your spirit feels
And you watch
As that sun sets
In an impossible mix of orange, purple,
And pink
A curtain on the greatest show
On earth
Ready to do it all again
Tomorrow.
Produced by Laura Rice.