Derecho

Finally it started to snow a bit.
I knew we weren't going to
Have a foot of snow like
The prognosticators said,
I thought we'd have just a little.

For one thing, besides
The obvious boggy grey warm of
Days in this new mid-February,
Winds like these, lately,
Don't bring that much snow.
I sniff the air and release my
Prairie bones to my own durable
Signals.

These are unsettled winds,
I should say, unsettled
For this season;
They are steady,
They are near-straight line, and
I find them odd, these
Derecho winds in winter, tho
I've been living through them in
These last few days,
Waking.