articulate clouds

we know
   nothing
      yet we are
   filled with the
      need to
speak.

perhaps
   words are made
      of the hard colors of
   earthly
care.

let your lungs
   taste the clarity of
      the sky
   as the
      clouds savour
   the salt of the
sea.

do you think
   dark clouds are
      filled with
         sadness?

   make love
      like the soft
   summer
rain.

knowledge is a
   gift of the
      sun.

   learn to glow
      like the honey-pink
   clouds of twillight––

   the sacred time
      just before
dark.