The weather within...

“To make myself understood and to diminish the distance between us, I
called out: 'I am an evening cloud too.' They stopped still, evidently
taking a good look at me. Then they stretched towards me their fine,
transparent, rosy wings. That is how evening clouds greet each other.
They had recognized me.” - Rainer Maria Rilke (from Stories of God)

"At first they were
just clouds, like any other.
Then they broke open. This is, I
suppose,
just one of the common miracles,
a transformation, not a
vision,
not an answer, not a proof, but I put it
there, close against my
heart, where the need is, and it serves

the purpose."

- Mary Oliver (from her poem "Clouds," published in Why I Wake Early)