Watching the Weather Channel in Moab
What is travel without a purpose but wandering?
A wonder few contained conscious souls can tolerate.
Clouds do it without thinking—
As if the business of water is wishing to be seen.
And what god takes charge of aimlessness,
What free world cabinet demi-god
Calls the temperature & pressure jet stream delights:
Free and clear, rain, typhoon, 1000 year flood . . .That happens all the time in every year?
The clockwork Newton universe ticks out trouble
Confirming quantum uncertainty,
No one can explore
(That other place), where
Formulas written in Oriental calligraphy
Adorn the Interstate highway signs,
Tell the wanderers the way to what might have been
And why they dare not go.
Mo·ab
"An ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea in present-day southwest Jordan. According to the Bible, its inhabitants were descendants of Lot. Archaeological exploration has traced settlement in the area to at least the 13th century b.c."
I thought this was Utah and sky was partly cloudy.