Weather Cock

When the west wind blows

each breath inhaling air full of oxygen

straight off the ocean

sometimes from Hawaii
I grow younger

When the east wind blows

I grow older with worry

over blown by a vortex

of contagious contention

impossible to escape

trailing in its wake

when the north wind blows

I can reset my compass

face winter well prepared

clean air from Canada

with no tariff on import

when the south wind blows

coal trains going north

oil trains coming after

then one after another

coal train oil train again
& again

Dick Russell

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