Some words for the week

the way the clouds sit

just below the horizon line

makes the nearest mountain

look like the last edge

of the known universe

but that’s just another illusion

of water and light

that most people

these days

have no time for

and I guess neither do I

for I must break the image

break the metaphor

ignore the view

and drive through the fog

to get to the job

listening to some report

on the newest genocide

and as I do I think of a world

where people pull off

and park their cars

and watch the way

far off rain

makes a brushstroke painting

of the sky

how great a world

where we worship weather

instead of work and war

Alexander Shalom Joseph is a writer from Gilpin County. He is a published author. For more information and to subscribe to Alexander’s Newsletter go to alexandershalomjoseph.com