Minnesota Winter Crows - a Poem With Notes and Commentary on Winter Storms

Minnesota Winter Crowsseason, for the winter has helped them grow thin
[A Minnesota Poem] in Haiku formand lean, and has helped the humans in Minnesota
The long, long wave of winterto grow fat, because they hibernate in the house
Creeps, slowly creeps backsomewhat. Then in spring the crows grow fat,
From where it came fromand the humans start growing lean, they get out
It had burst around us, thisof the house as soon as possible--and then there
This Merry spell--diedis no end to their activities.
It has not, not yet...Commentary on Winter Storms: Winter storms
But lifted its gray, bleak clouds--are simply a part of the culture, a fact of life, or
It most surely has!so it would seem in Minnesota; I was born there,
Less lovely...yes, perhaps;in St. Paul, and have witnessed many of them.
Then comes early spring: crowsSevere winter storms go back as far as weather
In their bleak, black--flightreporting goes, to perhaps, Nov 10, 1835, when a
Looking feverish...!severe storm caused 19shipwrecks on Great
#1732 3-13-2007Lakes, 254 sailor's died´. And then on Nov
Notes: here is a four stanza Haiku, on the ending8, 1870 the first winter storm warning was issued
of winter in Minnesota, in 2007. Minnesota isby the U.S. Army Signal Corps. On March 14-15,
known for its winters going out like a lion, and so1941 terrible blizzard in western counties, 85-mph
it has proven so in the month of March, of 2007,winds at Grand Forks, 75 mph winds at Duluth. In
when this poem was written. It would seem1996, we had three blizzards, and in 1997, we had
winter would simply stop, and spring would comefive blizzards. The total seasonal snow fall, is
in, but it never happens that way. Even the crowsbetween 90 and 120 inches.
have a period of time to readjust to the new