June 20, 2005

The Weatherman

10th fairway at The Greens of Tanyard Creek Golf Course Bella Vista Arkansas


The Car Salesmen said...

"You know it is hotter here
than in Los Angeles.."
I laughed within and thought
"How can they know?"

I can speak of thirty eight summers
enduring the Santa Anna
Devil Wind, burning desert heat
brittle dried brush, and canyons

Mountains and coastal ranges
turned into infernos
Dream homes, beach shack and mansion
become the ashes of nightmare.

Septembers days of raging wind
become October's blazing fall,
The ground so dry and heated, cracked
it makes the earth shake

Oh, you Southern men
your leafy trees
Your oceans of green leaves
speak of a softer clime

Of rain, misted mornings then
afternoons of sun soaked humidity
Soft breezes, Gulf stirred
or sent by northern winds

Ozark Summer's Thunderheads
white mountains of clouds
Bearing lighting and voluminous rain
possibly tornados

If your luck has run out...