Weathering
Cyclones are better than wildfires, than
smoke that blows hundreds of miles to
thicken the air. In the East Bay, high
levels of particulate matter from our
regular winter pollution are blown away
at forty-to-fifty miles per hour as
the storms pummel our flats and hills
drenching the earth not quite enough
to combat years of drought as I ride
through hail and flooded roads to borrow
a car so I can pick up the children from
school. Workers ford what seems like
a river on one side of the …
