Tall Mist

Call it what you will, - a low cloud or tall mist,

but today the bet grey’ll persist a lot longer’s 

wasted controversy, and standing even less 

chance breaking thru is sunny magnanimity; 

to believe 7% meteorological prospect of rain 

with any confidence forecasts breeze-change 

to quietly blow this non-precipitous monotony 

away from these completely banded hills;

We’re waiting in 98% humidity - that’s all but 

rain so they’ll likely win the argument, & its a 

lay-down misère by their reckoning, bleak in 

th’ best prospects yet we’re expected to see 

this an appropriate form of reality; crikey, all 

I see’s a low cloud or damnedly tall mist! 

© 17 August 2015, I. D. Carswell
















Here's the same scene an hour and a half later