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Poems, Pacific coast, clouds, birds MaryJane Nordgren Poems, Pacific coast, clouds, birds MaryJane Nordgren

showoff storm

An original poem by MaryJane Nordgren at the Pacific coast

showoff storm

 

watercolor sky

and seascape

changing in the hail

wind gusts causing gulls

to land like drunken sailors

and ruffling tail and wing

feathers as they huddle

on the beach

sudden torrents of rain

beating, roiling sand

beneath the surface

to muddy gold-brown

churning the water

into foam white and gray-green

purple-blue in the shadows

of black-purple-gray clouds

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