Last for weather for now. Our California State Poet Laureate from 2008-2011! Maybe gardens next week. More here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/octave-above-thunder
from An Octave Above Thunder / by Carol Muske-Dukes b. 1945
Here were the words of the Blind Poet–
crumpled like wash for the line, to be
dried, pressed flat.