clouds

In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of minute liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space. The building blocks of clouds are water and particles known as cloud condensation nuclei. These are everywhere in the atmosphere. They attract water vapor and as they ascend the vapor condenses to form liquid water or ice, which results in the formation of tiny globules called cloud droplets. Much smaller than raindrops, cloud droplets are extremely light and amass while they float, mixing with air to form the fluffed formations we see suspended in the sky.

Held within them is potential pourings

Wispy weavings across hues of blue

They rise and fall in infinite variations

Thick woven balls. Heaving droplets. Charcoal skies.

'Clouds (...) are moisture-laden folds of the crumpled sky. They are of the sky, not disconnected objects that hang in it. For the sky no more parts with its clouds, receding into hemispheric uniformity, than does the ground from its hills and mountains, only to sink back into a planar base'

'The galaxy to which we belong is composed of hundreds of millions of stars whose average size is equal to that of the sun. Its surface is so vast that light- at the speed of 186,000 miles per second - takes 100,000 years to cover its entire distance. Earth, which revolves somewhere in the middle region, is situated 30,000 light-years from the galaxy's axis, and earth dwellers would certainly never have known the form of this universe without the revelation, by means of very powerful telescopes, of worlds quite like ours, far beyond the cloud of stars within which our planet is buried.'