Sky-train passing 12/7/15

There is a freight train of cloud boxcars,

full of rain passing overhead.

These are flat bottom freight cars

filled to the gills with moisture.

I don’t see the under-lying tracks

but the train is swiftly rolling.

What keeps the cars from spilling their rain-grain,

I do not know.

There must be lines of tracks in parallel

with all the trains racing the same direction.

Someone somewhere is going to get dumped on

with a heavy load once these sky trains arrive.

Although a favorite pastime,

I don’t really know how to count the cloud-cars

as they pass.

I use to guess at railroad cars from the start,

maybe eighty, eighty-five to one twenty,

but in this arrangement,

I never saw the engine

and can’t so far, see the caboose.

Not worth a count

without a beginning and an end.

Sure I had the whimsy to do this

but not the timing.

Do all rainclouds eventually dump their load?

I mean, sure it could be just rain,

then again maybe snow

or even more interesting, topsy-turvy hail.

How does that work

while these trains are just in transit?

Simply wondering

while this sky-land is steeply animated

and deeply crowded with this moisture load

hard charging in sky passage . . .