Frost sketches delicate warnings across the window
Branches stiffen like soldiers awaiting news
My breath appears as a fragile ghost
Cold studies me wondering if I will surrender
Snow lands heavy intentional determined to claim the world
I answer with a single spark of warmth lodged under bone
Icicles listen uneasy sensing betrayal in the air
Winter falters as light touches my shoulder
Clouds unfasten;their gray armor breaks apart
A shy sliver of green emerges from beneath white silence
Hope stretches its fingers astonished to find itself alive
The season quakes losing its authority
Wind changes allegiance;sunlight returns without apology
I stand inside the thaw feeling victory hum in my blood
Winter retreats—unwilling undone
Some colds never win Some lives thaw themselves