Poem / six movements / after the rain

Small
Weather

A poem for the hour between putting the kettle on and deciding to go outside. Written in the margins of a weather report.

— for whoever is reading this

      The weather
      begins
      indoors.
    

Movement I — Indoors1 / 6

      A kettle exhales.
      The window decides
      to become
      a horizon.
    

Movement II — Kettle2 / 6

      We are all
      small maps
      of places
      we have not
      left yet.
    

Movement III — Maps3 / 6

      Rain writes
      in the margin.
      We read it
      as permission.
    

Movement IV — Margin4 / 6

      Somewhere
      a door
      is a question
      left open.
    

Movement V — Door5 / 6

      Take the long
      way home.
      The long way
      is the weather.
    

Movement VI — Home6 / 6

and the kettle, again,

begin small.

Small Weather — a poem in six movementsSet in system grotesque & Iowan italicOne file · no weather required