When Pyrocumulus Last In the Western Lands Bloomed

[Erthona]

I didn't know until a week or so ago forest fires could create pyrocumulus clouds. I saw a big, white, puffy cloud in the area of a large forest fire north of where I was, one day, and wondered about it. I think it was later that same day I saw mention of the pyrocumulus in a local newspaper.

You might have noticed I left "that way" at the end of the line. I'm still on-the-fence about it. I like the way William Carlos Williams has it in a line of one of his poems, (Portrait of a Lady) so thought I would mimic it. Here it is in context:

"-- As if that answered
anything. -- Ah, yes. Below
the knees, since the tune
drops that way, it is
one of those white summer days,..."

I like to 'borrow' things from other writers, sometimes. Mainly for the purpose of humor. The title of this poem is a take on one by Walt Whitman: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed."

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Never have been a big fan of enjambment but that mainly a stylistic preference on my part.

Dale