Storm Warning

rising from cobalt blue,
a billowing, bulky near anathema,
dressed in black over gray,
with jagged electric blue pinstripes
irregularly stitched in flame,
the approach of the giant
is unsilent, heralded by the
explosive breath of animal
intensity and bomburst sound,
split clean and sharp
through the twilight darkening;
shrieking winds scream,
terror laden ,
from horizon to lip of faroff hill,
cold air comes hanging in
from its lofty habitat.

2005
Just before the Gulfcoast storm