Dark Clouds

Limited edition digital print
Image 7 1/2″ x 8″; paper 8 1/2″ x 11″
(Click on image to view at larger size.)

Limited edition digital print
Image 7 1/2″ x 8″; paper 8 1/2″ x 11″
(Click on image to view at larger size.)
Enroute to my daughter’s house
and about twenty miles distant,
a colossal gaseous mass appears
above the little city of Muskogee.
From my turnpike point of view
it looks as if it is emanating from
the O G & E electric power plant.
Maybe it’s the men in white coats.
My daughter and grandchildren
reside beneath that faux cumulus:
specter of coelacanth, of dinosaur,
of Mesozoic fern and tiny trilobite
we study while in grammar school
and depict in those dreaded essays.
by Richard Brown