The Weather Lorax
Just before Christmas 2021
A historic wind storm
Setting a new norm
Swept across us all
Continental Divide sigh
I told you so
Tornadoes spun from Minnesota snow
Blew out a Kentucky candle factory
Days before
Tropical hurricane here in Michigan
My lit up life-size Christmas bear
Wobbled around the bare backyard
Side to side
Like an old man on bad hips
Or a bow-legged cowboy
Hands on holsters
Pacing steps to the final showdown
I draw
In shorts T-Shirt and Birkenstocks
Santa cap
He howls to the ground
Upside down
Shaking in the foreboding wind.
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