Tracy, I spent hours and hours watching clouds as a child and now as an adult, photographing clouds, particularly over water, is a favorite pastime.

When I left Florida to live in Georgia for 5 years from the late ’70s to the early ’80s, it was the clouds of Florida I missed the most. They truly are spectacular here. It was a challenge to write a poem about clouds not being present but I decided to take a different route with the prompt.