weather alice

alice was a weather watcher
she rode the weather boat
she wore her weather overshoes
her weather overcoat

when the storms came ro her town
she followed on her feet
she chased the clouds from house to house
took photos in the street

until a storm came to her lane
cracked her barometer
instead of alice chasing it
the storm was chasing her

that flash she saw was not lightning
the storm took photographs
that rumbling wasn't thunder
but the storm's unnerving laughs

and when it left behind no drops
and left behind no malice
she wondered what that storm would do
with its photographs of alice