Dragon Cloud

A rainbow landed in a leafless, bark-stripped tree

where all the crows faced south, above which

a dragon cloud appeared,

majestic

Tearing blue skies

with casual claws

Far beyond our car’s framed perspective

it slid across the hills

And pawed a crystal ball

It acknowledged the wise salmon -

even danced an oriental dance

composed of poses

a tai chi tableaux

Heraldic, blazoned,

the curl of its smokey wrist

on extended glowing limbs

points accusingly…

The dark eye

holds us threatened

The scales clatter softly as it breathes

and on this breath

it morphed into something else...