We can talk about the weather—but what does the weather say
about us?
We can track the forecasts, eyeballing the weather askance as
any animal might keep tabs on a neighboring predator. A hail of umbrellas sailing
up and down a city street. Shadows that will not explain themselves. A thunder
god striking out with a bolt of anger. Thermometers, barometers, and the
weatherman, the resulting divination and their sums posted and printed and
explained in every possible media.
We can talk about the weather. Whether we stay together, whether
we drift apart. A pocket of air becomes a roller coaster becomes a death
becomes a career. A modern monster blows in and out, turned out in a grey suit
and leather oxfords. Houseplants have gone rogue in lush rainforests, gaining
impossible circumference in heavy rains.
Given the right weather, we all threaten
to grow in impossible directions.
Come see what the forecast is like in Folks Press Issue 13: The Weather
Issue!
