2004-01-09

the daily weather update
Would I make a good weather-woman?

1°F
Partly Cloudy
Feels Like:
-16°F

Lyle Lovett on the radio and having the car start - on the first try! - made for a warm morning.

morning

Why do we bother with the rest of the day,
the swale of the afternoon,
the sudden dip into evening,

then night with his notorious perfumes,
his many-pointed stars?

This is the best --
throwing off the light covers,
feet on the cold floor,
and buzzing around the house on espresso,

dictionary and atlas open on the rug,
the typewriter waiting for the key of the head,
a cello on the radio,

and, if necessary, the windows --
trees fifty, a hundred years old
out there,
heavy clouds on the way
and the lawn steaming like a horse
in the early morning.

--Billy Collins

I had to look it up:

swale n.

1. A low tract of land, especially when moist or marshy.

2. A long, narrow, usually shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.

3. A shallow troughlike depression that carries water mainly during rainstorms or snow melts.

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