" title="Painted, spoken Rob MacKenzie
Oran an IN
An sgoth sin, ’san dàn seo, ’s about
the condensation of water, therefore
the thousand and five Joules per kilo
latent heat, an’ the consequent motion.
What’s the updraught velocity, w?
How many CN’re activated?
Will the heat bounce the air below the frost point?
Will there be IN? Bet it disnae rain.
The particulars’re intriguing, maybe
enough for measurement — already
enough for a poem — but, for all the literature,
the cloud’ll not cease to be about
mille Joules ’s a coig gach kilo.
Note: pronounce the lone “w” as “wuh”.
CN : condensation nuclei; IN: ice nuclei; An sgoth sin, 'san dàn seo: that cloud and this poem; mille Joules ’s a coig gach kilo: one thousand and five Joules per kilogram
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