You probably know that there's meteorological and astrological seasons. There's also the Eightfold Wheel of the Year. Here in the Midwest, especially in Minnesota, we have a different set of folklore seasons. In Minnesota, the two most basic seasons are road construction and winter. We recently came across a broader, but, we believe, still incomplete, list of seasons. We're going to work on a set of definitions for them and add a few to make the list more encompassing and accurate. Please feel free to offer suggestions in the comments.
- Winter
- Fool's Spring
- Second Winter
- Spring of Deception
- Third Winter
- The Pollening
- Actual Spring
- Summer
- Hell's Front Porch
- False Fall
- Second Summer
- Actual Fall
Ojibwe Namebini-giizis (Suckerfish Moon)
Photo by J. Harrington
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stave the winter’s tangle.
Sad tomatoes, sullen sky.We unplay the summer’s blight.
Rotted on the vine, black fruitswings free of strings that bound it.
In the compost, ghost melon; in the fieldsgrotesque extruded peppers.
We prod half-thawed mucky things.In the sky, starlings eddying.
Tomorrow, snow again, old silence.Today, the creaking icy puller.
Last night I woketo wild unfrozen prattle.
Rain on the roof—a foreign liquid tongue.
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