Nimbus The thin mornings spent staring up from Heraklion Naming each cloud bank, and the divine favours they'd curry. What if Aristophanes had climbed instead? Gripped the stark white herd. Dragged them down and locked them in to the lanes of a muddy pasture Would they float among us? Serve us for their meals? Milking their rain into buckets While we laugh at the angy bolts they throw Oh my favourite, precursor to storms. The untouchable anger that takes our skies. And the blue restoration come on like a wave Gracious and white Michael August Raggi Michael August Raggi is a former professional art dealer, a fine art recovery specialist, and a technology expert that keeps the lights of his poetry habit on by preventing spies and hackers from stealing data from world governments in his position at Google. Despite being published in the Washington Post and New York Times on cyber security, published in Fox Business News about Antiquity Theft, and featured prominently in a Japanese documentary about the New York art world, this represents a first foray into publishing poetry. Michael is a previously unheard voice blending incising metaphor, frank imagery of loss and marginalization, with identifiable tropes of American ennui.
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