Reading Jodi Picoult inspired this one.

...  dizzy with possibilities, rain, snow,
sun if she's in a playful mood.  Clouds
more fun:  like cotton candy, sticky on
the fingers, and they taste good, too!
She loves drawing ziggy-zaggy lines -
that's lightning, she tells me, making
noises in her throat (that's thunder).
With a psssssssh sound, she makes
like rain.  Where's the wind, I ask her;
she rolls her eyes and puffs out her
cheeks - there it is, captured behind
her lips.  And where's the sun?  She
arcs her arms around my neck and
already I know the answer:  in my arms.

(c) 2007, Karla Dorman (12/10)