‘Read a cloud,
decode it, a dense, chilly mass
can shift, flood with light.
Watch for clouds closing under you:
the sky opens in a breath,
shuts in a heartbeat.’
Excerpt from ‘Flying Lessons’, a poem by Dolores Hayden (Member 48,618), published in her collection Exuberance (2019).
Cirrus fibratus spotted over Scunthorpe, England by Rachel McLoughlin (Member 64,396).