You can defy the weather in a poem,
so pick a couple models. Brainstorm
all you can. Throw in a study session.

You can always breeze it: release
gentle and pretty.
Or better, believe it: tackle purpose,
take a political turn.

Start where you are! All levels welcome–
Break tornadoes from the get-go
or chain lightning into the
tender shoots of a trellised pea plant.

If you rain, surprise us: no average cats,
no predictable dogs allowed. In your
flood of verse, you can hail anything.

Be Storm’s hairdresser. Console her
about leveled neighboorhoods and
lost crops as you restore her Marvel look
and wonder if you’ll end up in Cerebro.

Be the chiropractor of the polar regions:
crack the ice shelves back into place until
white bears quadruple in population.

However you weather report, read
the work outloud, revise, sound it clear.
Keep a few solid facts in the broadcast.