The Decennial Lexicon of Atmospheric Evanesce

Upon the altar of a decade’s slow attrition,
I have sat, a silent scrivener of the void,
Recording the caprice of the firmament’s attrition,
In vellum bound, by chronometric zeal employed.
With brass anemometer and mercurial reed,
I traced the barometric pulse, the hydrometric sigh,
Cataloging every tempest, every errant seed,
Of vaporous phantoms drifting through the vault of sky.
For ten circulations of the solar sphere,
I witnessed the vernal equinox in its verdant bloom,
The estival torridity, the sweltering fear,
The autumnal senescence, and the hibernal gloom.
I noted the petrichor upon the parched loam,
The hygrometric shifts in the crepuscular haze,
The nebulous stratus seeking a celestial home,
Through the labyrinthine passage of uncounted days.
At first, it seemed a mere litany of chance,
A stochastic dance of nimbus and of gale,
A chaotic sequence, a meteorological trance,
Wherein the logic of the heavens seemed to fail.
I documented the cyclonic swirl and the zephyr’s breath,
The lachrymose descent of the pluviose veil,
Mapping the doldrums, the stillness akin to death,
And the tempestuous fury that renders the stoutest frail.
But as the decennium neared its weary close,
A subtle pattern