Winter's Meager Residual

Balmy currents retire to southern shore Frosty streams blight earthen floor Winter's portents roundly deplore Wistfully longing for summer's store For gilded fields, masted trees implore Harvest's stipend succors no more Residual huskings now cattle's score Ingratiating beams now seep through trap door Bristling wind over meager fare doth soar Barren limbs are shivered to their core Fertile seeds, fecund spores in fallowed mounds bore Wanton foragers denuded channels explore Spent chaff from nature's vault to gore Bereft herbivores waiting for spring rains to restore