{"id":652,"date":"2024-02-02T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T21:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=product&#038;p=652"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:59:04","slug":"weather","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/product\/weather","title":{"rendered":"Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by\u00a0Kelly Cherry<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<style>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#tab_container_650 {\r\n\toverflow:hidden;\r\n\tdisplay:block;\r\n\twidth:100%;\r\n\tborder:0px solid #ddd;\r\n\tmargin-bottom:30px;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n#tab_container_650 .tab-content{\r\n\tpadding:20px;\r\n\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n\tmargin-top: 0px;\r\n\tbackground-color:#fffbe5 !important;\r\n\tcolor: #000000 !important;\r\n\tfont-size:16px !important;\r\n\tfont-family: Open Sans !important;\r\n\t\r\n\t\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n\t}\r\n#tab_container_650 .wpsm_nav-tabs {\r\n    border-bottom: 0px solid #ddd;\r\n}\r\n#tab_container_650 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a, #tab_container_650 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a:hover, #tab_container_650 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a:focus {\r\n\tcolor: #000000 !important;\r\n\tcursor: default;\r\n\tbackground-color: #fffbe5 !important;\r\n\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n}\r\n\r\n#tab_container_650 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li > a {\r\n    margin-right: 0px !important; 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Robert Oppenheimer' is a stunning tribute to one of America\u2019s most significant scientists. As Cherry traces the life of Oppenheimer, she compels us to consider not only our condition as human beings but our responsibility to each other and our world. Cherry\u2019s work is a remarkable achievement.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014From a review by Sonja James, in\u00a0<em>The Journal<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"What sets her biography apart from prose ones? Well, she\u2019s a brilliant poet: she knows how to use her craft to say something in a more richly condensed way than prose can do.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014From a review by Peggy Rosenthal, in\u00a0<em>Image<\/em>\u00a0and in\u00a0<em>Patheos<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-651 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/kelly-cherry-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Cherry\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Kelly Cherry<\/strong>\u00a0has published twenty-five books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, ten chapbooks, and translations of two classical plays. Her most recent title is\u00a0<em>Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer<\/em>\u00a0(poetry). Forthcoming this fall is\u00a0<em>Temporium<\/em>, a book of short-shorts and flash fiction. She was the first recipient of the Hanes Poetry Prize given by the Fellowship of Southern Writers for a body of work. Other awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bradley Major Achievement (Lifetime) Award, a USIS Speaker Award (The Philippines), a Distinguished Alumnus Award, three Wisconsin Arts Board fellowships, the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award for Distinguished Book of Stories in 1999 (2000), and selection as a Wisconsin Notable Author. In 2010, she was a Director\u2019s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has recently received the Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Letters. A former Poet Laureate of Virginia and emerita member of the Electorate of Poets Corner at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City, she is also Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kelly Cherry and her husband live in Virginia.<strong>\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_650_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P><strong>Birds on the Patio Feeders, No. 1<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nA big wind blows the bird feeders from side to side<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and thunder mutters to itself but the day<BR>\r\nis as bright as Mensa.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nBare branches resembling veins and arteries<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0look skeletal as the bony, unfleshed medical figure<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who dances only when someone jerks his puppet strings.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThat big wind scours the sky as if the sky is a giant kitchen sink.<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Trees bend, hanging their heads, sorrowful.<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Such drama. Yet we are captivated to see<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nrobins, thrushes\u2014early birds not dissuaded<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by the big blow, the rumble of thunder, the Danse<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Macabre.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThey fly with the flow, so light are they, skidding<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0among a thousand currents of air, tipping<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this way or that, free from gravity<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nperhaps, or only delicately tied<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to grand invisible waves of connection\u2014<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0or affection, given their shared routes.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThe pathways birds\u2014and butterflies\u2014establish<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0could carry us thousands of miles away and<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0afar were we able to follow them<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nand some have done so, lugging cameras<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and high-priced computers and taking notes.<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or one may simply watch the birds feeding<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nat the feeders on one\u2019s patio, cardinals<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dignified and sometimes even officious,<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the finch with his rosy underside, juncos<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nchasing one another off the little<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0red schoolhouse that holds birdseed, or the hanging<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cylinder that swings every which way in wind.<\/P>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<P><strong>The North Star<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nDid wise men follow the Star of Bethlehem<BR>\r\nto the newborn babe? It\u2019s possible, I guess,<BR>\r\nbut I am more attracted to the notable North Star:<BR>\r\nits unchanging beauty, a star frozen<BR>\r\nin the sky except that it is not frozen, is<BR>\r\na fury of fire signaling to us<BR>\r\nfrom 323 lightyears away, saying<BR>\r\nhello, saying hi there! It tells us<BR>\r\nwe are not alone.<BR>\r\n           Of course it\u2019s hard to converse<BR>\r\nwith a star but our excellent telescopes help and<BR>\r\nastronomers have taken careful note<BR>\r\nof its age and size and other such calculations<BR>\r\nand they all agree that it is indeed<BR>\r\na beautiful star born to succeed.<\/P>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<P><strong>The North Pole<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nNo, it\u2019s not as cold as the South Pole<BR>\r\nbut it is certainly cold enough.<BR>\r\nAny direction you turn in from the Pole<BR>\r\nis south, but getting there used to be tough.<BR>\r\nNowadays you may fly to the Pole<BR>\r\nor over it. 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