Elementary Weather

On my stomach

The clouds are cotton above me

Floating stationary

Soft and supple

Temperature drops by two

Cotton daubed grey

Crusty and firm

Blue elliptical cut-outs in haphazard sizes

Fall in great numbers

Thousands of cocktail umbrellas open

Angry yellow pipe cleaners

Bend and thrust from beneath the cotton

They deck the sky with fury

Electric upon my skin

Chill in my bones

Then the glue weakens

The cotton falls and disappears

Reveals a bright yellow painted circle

A perimeter of orange clay spikes

On my back

I watch

I warm

Two plastic eyes open

The black centres shake foolishly

A row of elbow noodle teeth smile down upon me