Dangerous Patterns

More snow for Kentucky, deadly
cold in Minnesota. Gusts, chill,
headwinds swirl. Already so many
limbs down, mountains of mud
poised. Most of the forecasters
fired, their maps erased.

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Professor Emerita of English, Michelle DeRose lives and writes in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Find some of her most recent publications in The New Verse News, Dunes Review, Peninsula Poets, Midwest Quarterly, miniskirt magazine, and Sparks of Calliope.