April 4, 2023

My Weather 'Girl'

whenever I want to have an Astro-Session

(I host them at my church, on occasion

just a guy, a telescope and some friends

in the back parking lot of Westney Heights Baptist)

I need to do a weather check before hand

but I can’t see the sky from my home for the houses

so I call up my weather-girl-in-the-sky

(hi Mom)

ask her to look out her windows to the west

since she’s up eighty feet higher than me

she can look out over the houses blocking my view

and let me know if the clouds will do that too

she’s been a big help this year too

(cloudiest winter since nineteen-forty)

I’d almost gone out a time or twice

and would have wasted the trip

if it hadn’t been for her

thanks Mom