Cone of Uncertainty

The cone of uncertainty extends from the eye

to possible landfall: a tiny port in the fetid south

and eastward to another tiny port in the fetid south

which reminds me of a blue wheelbarrow,

one point on the circumference of its wheel

firmly planted where I last left it waiting

to be steered by the arc made by my arms

and my hands grasping the handles, but that

is no cone of uncertainty and somehow geometry

backwards since an arc could not steer an apex

just as possible catastrophes cannot maneuver

their cause though they be within sight of the eye.

* "cone of uncertainty" defines the outer edges of an area

within which a hurricane's eye might make landfall.