Liz's Winter Poem

7.30a.m.

Light gleans eerily across diamond snow

Collecting refracted star bursts

Crystals form ice queen palaces

Her warm breath, an exquisite death.

Lone swan searches biting river

Outstretched neck desperate with loss

Salmon breasted chaffinch lands heavily

Snow plumps groundward, revealing season's green

Matchstick trees spread blackened fingers skyward

In ominous hope, trunks planted in sugar dust for consistency

Nature's pregant pause hangs heavy

As winter rests a new fools blanket.