Cloudwear

Photograph by Alex Shapiro


Cloudwear


Driving on the south end
of this island mid-morning today,
I was stunned
(as always)
by the immense view from the coastline
on which my tires, myself and my latte
were planted,
looking out to Canada’s Vancouver Island
directly across the Haro Strait.

I liked the unwitting visual symmetry
of the space above the horizon
until the clouds became dark,
and the space between the sea and the bluff
on which I stood.
The foggy March haze draped itself
around the mountains so beautifully.
I’d like to go through life
draped like that myself.
Forget about fabric clothing altogether,
and just adorn myself with cloudwear.


Alex Shapiro March 2010

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