Cloud-man

Cloud-man is clouds and fog and mist.
He takes rain checks.
He walks in clouds, talks about
everything but the clouds, gives out rain checks.

Bittersweet does well next to Cloud-man.
She thrives in the clouds, invades branches, trees, strangles trunks
as she reaches for Cloud-man.
As soon as she gets close, feels the drips of the fog, of the cloud settling on her, he disappears back into the sky, or solidifies into a rain while she watches the Earth soak it all in.