My Week in Haiku- week 11

Power outage: friend or foe?

Photo by author.

This week much of the country got the shit kicked out of it by a winter storm. By Friday night, suburban Detroit, where I live, was covered in a crystallized coating of wet snow. And there was lots of wind.

While minding my own business, the lights in my house quickly flashed off and came back on. That’s how it always starts — the quick flash of…