The Sky Responds
By Rusty LaGrange, High Desert Branch
The sky responds to
shades of love, brilliant
blues and opal flames.
Reflections, thoughts and hugs
wrapped all so tenderly.
The sky responds to shades
of fear, blackened, bruised,
roiling thunder-clashing,
dower clouds molded, hunched
on earth’s crests like fists.
The sky responds to dread like mine
where danger lurks from shadowed holes,
peering out and up, declines to venture out.
Brackish banks of storm clouds roll, screaming
to the ones below – “Better to tuck your head
inside than chance a bitter blow.”
The sky responds to hues of Spring,
lavender becomes old hat, where
fuchsia compliments the day;
and lime, a sublime welcome mat
against brilliant clouds of elephants,
charm lovers and their universal sighs.
“The Sky Responds” appeared in the Inkslinger
March 2022 newsletter of the High Desert Branch.