Winter Solstice

Zero,minus twelve growing colder yet orange meadowbrite blossom though autumn is over Bare burningwood trees lost their leaves ...ocher,orange copper their vased pink flowers pruned proper Snow burned my glowing brown skin cold calloused stiff as winter begins warm garments feel thin in bitter cold wind Wool socks soft as kittens sown into mittens summer's blossoms frostbitten beneath deadened soil next spring's seeds hidden Skin worn and blistered yet warmth's in distance Home's...warm as summer's past,this day's first splendor my skin thawed,blushing red and tender as an orchard rottens and all pain's fogotten yearning winter's end and spring first blossoms