Weather Alert

It is a wet dishrag of a day.
Dismal it is, grey and soggy.
On the sidewalks singly and
in  groups vacant-eyed people
wander aimlessly, coffee cups
in hand, a desultory scene of
urban anomie. Trucks bully
cars and transit buses speed by
empty of passengers. The sky
is a bleak spectacle of metallic
fusion in a downdrift of
persistent rain. The winter
snowpack is disintegrating
in this January thaw. The two
rivers alongside the city --
wide ribbons of churling grey
with gaunt defoliated trees
lining their banks speak sad
volumes of de-energized
landscapes. A silent air of
miserable discontent breathes
disconsolate damp dejection.