February

2025’s second month
is deficient, lacking, less than
helpful, failing to
provide warmth to millions
shivering from northern Canada
to the Texas shoreline. 
It is minus fourteen in Nebraska,
colder further north, predicted
to have a high below zero
about three this afternoon.
Not much snow in January,
it comes daily now
adding to everyone’s wariness.
Livestock must live out there,
people must travel
yet roads are terrible.
State trooper responding
to an accident
was killed by a snowplow.
Heavy rain and floods
in California and Kentucky
death toll rising,
leave people homeless,
businesses swamped.
What have we done to you
Mother Nature,
for you to turn on us,
what have we done?