[What is in that word honour?] 

Echo’s stunt: 

shorthorn without win,

our ninth run. Thru 

what thin iron to worth? 

A nitwit. A thrush-nut. 

Hotshot without whoosh

or chosen cut. Northward

onto worn odor, truth

writ us nets: a twinned

hurt to thatch. The runt 

whored out an hour, riot-

notched a turn. On cue, 

a no-show at noon.

 Vortex

I’m sorry to report     

passing

ropelike, conditions     

amazingly throughout

fit for/of      

microburst, 

scud cloud      

incorrectly filler 

flanking line of      

swell

completion 

(standard moves, reflections)

squall turned gust turned mesocyclonic

thunder-crack, sea 

surge, waterspout—

reversal 

of lake, conduction from inside out:

retreat, the skinned soft ground