Issue 2.2
Summer-Autumn 2006
Weather Forecast
poem by Adriana DiGennaro and image by Lou
Pollock
A periwinkle sky at nine, with
real violet powder mixed in
the cream blue.
Trees are black against it.
It's 71 degrees and fair, wind coming in
from the southeast
a sleepy seven miles.
The
weather forecast tilts its complacent baby face up to
me, and there I see a series
of seven yellow spheres, each with one
corresponding.
cloud, cloned on the rectangle of this white
week.
Periwinkle sky now soft, like bed
sheets in a rich girl's
room. It is coloring in its own
processes.
Tomorrow the sun will be a blond best
friend, jumping on
the morning mattress with an armful
of oranges.
"Waking Up" Copyright 2006 by Lou Pollack
Copyright 2006 by Adriana DiGennaro. All rights reserved.
Adriana DiGennaro
is author of the poetry collection Peripheral Vision (Writers Ink Press, 2001). Her poetry
has appeared in numerous publications including Red River Review,
Tryst3, Adagio Verse Quarterly, and Whispers of Inspiration: An
Anthology of New Am
erican Poets (Darlene & Steve Manchester, eds., Sunpiper
Press, 2005).
Lou Pollack
is a freelance graphic
designer and illustrator with specialties ranging from cover design, greeting
cards, and business
branding to illustration and graphics for children's media. She is currently
developing creativity classes and working on a children's book series featuring
her friend, LoulaBelle.
(shown here).
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