This Year It’s Different

If the winds can bring them in

the clouds are wispy and thin.

There are no raindrops in 'em.

and the sky is like blue denim.

The Sonoran desert is

usually clear like this.

They say the clouds are scattered

as if it really mattered.

Day after day monotony

without a hint of rain for me.

We think that the monsoon

is like a forgotten tune.

There is no moisture anywhere

but the weatherman calls this fair.

Walt Abbott 7-26-2011