Sometimes You See It
It is made of wind blows it along. Drops of water or crystals of ice very high above ground. It may be rivers and ponds. You find it hard as rock. To pour, it is hard to see through. It once made people lose their way. Really a cloud close to the ground, it sparkles in sunshine. It is wind blowing hard and a great deal of snow falling. Often it hangs down on blades of grass on a summer morning. Be a gas, or a vapor. Tiny drops. Once a raindrop, now it may do some harm. You see white on windowpanes. Find it in clouds. Find it in air. It may be very short. It may be very long. You see several colors when the sun comes out. Sometimes you see it in the east. Sometimes you see it in the west.
Down and Up
Down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds; down to the ground; up to the clouds.
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Kathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9—Fog. Her story collection, The Dominant Animal, is forthcoming in April 2020 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her work has been published in NOON, Granta, and The Paris Review Daily. She lives in Los Angeles.