The Clouds Which Obscured the Sun
By Harry More
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011 Harry More
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"I got six balloons here," said the man on a branch on the cherry tree, a cherry tree which grew on soil, soil which came from leaves which rotted in the sun and in the rain, the rain which had come from clouds, clouds which had kept out sunlight, sunlight which came from the sun.
The same sun made it so the boy in front of the tree could see the balloons, the balloons which were made of synthetic rubber. The boy wondered why the man had balloons with a brain made of neurons, neurons which had carbon in them, carbon which came from stars.
The man released a balloon, and the balloon went up in the air, the air carried the scent of the field, the field which contained the tree with the man, the boy, and the grass which moved in the breeze. The breeze came from the mountains, which were made of rocks, rocks that had been there a very long time, rocks that had been formed by the moving of tectonic plates.
The sun shone on the rocks, the sun which made it so the boy in front of the tree could see the balloons, balloons which were made of synthetic rubber. The boy watched the balloon the man had let go of float through the breeze, the breeze which blew in the grass. The boy saw the balloon in the sky, the sky which was blue and also had clouds, which kept out some of the sunlight which came from the sun.
A bird flew by the man and the boy, casting a shadow, a shadow which moved across the grass, the grass which moved in the breeze. The bird was a crow, a crow which had built a nest, a nest which had twigs, twigs from the tree which housed the man with the balloons, the five balloons which blew in the breeze, the breeze which blew the balloon which was disappearing into the sky, the sky which had clouds which kept out some of the sunlight which came from the sun.
Despite the clouds, the sun was hot, and the boy who watched the man with the five balloons could feel the heat, the heat upon his nerves as the balloons blew in the breeze, the breeze which blew through the grass. The grass was green, green because chlorophyll absorbs all parts of the light spectrum except green, green like the shirt of the man who held the balloons, the balloons which blew in the breeze.
The crow that cast the shadow landed in its nest on a tree a mile away, its nest with twigs from the tree with the man with the balloons, the balloons which blew in the breeze. The bird had laid eggs, eggs as white as the clouds in the sky, the clouds which partially blocked the sun, the sun which created the heat on the nerves of the boy watching the man with the balloons.
The crow dropped a feather, a feather which fell from the tree, a tree which was blowing in the breeze which also blew through the grass. The feather landed on a puddle, a puddle which had come from rain, rain which had come from the sky which was blue and partially obscured by clouds. In the puddle was a reflection of the tree, the tree which had the crow which had the nest with the eggs as white as the clouds in the sky.
In the puddle was a mosquito, a mosquito which had blood, blood which came from the man with five balloons sitting in a tree, a man who now scratched the bite in the place where the mosquito bit him, as the boy watched him and the breeze blew through his balloons and the grass around the tree, the breeze which came from the mountains.
In the mountains there was a cougar, a cougar which was hungry, a hunger which caused it to seek out food, food which it found in the form of a mountain deer. As its claws ripped the flesh of the deer, and its teeth sunk in, blood stained the ground, the ground of the mountains which created the breeze which blew through the five balloons held by the man in the tree.
As the cougar devoured the mountain deer, a raindrop fell from a cloud, a cloud which obscured the sun which showed the reflection of the tree in the puddle where the mosquito who had bitten the man with the five balloons was residing.
The cougar was devouring the flesh of the mountain deer, flesh that adhered to bones, bones which grew from calcium which came from the grass which the mountain deer ate. The grass grew on the sides of the mountains, the mountains which were formed by tectonic plate activity.
When the cougar had eaten enough, the rain started pouring from the clouds and washed away some of the blood which stained the ground on the mountains. As the rain poured, lightning flashed and thunder roared through the mountains, and was heard by the cougar which had eaten the flesh of the deer, the man with the five balloons in the tree, the boy who was watching him, the crow in the tree a mile away, and the mosquito in the puddle which contained a reflection of the tree, a reflection which could be seen because of light which came from the sun.