The Malevolent Wind

Wind is a wretched companion
on blisteringly cold winter 
landscapes, its fierce insistence
penetrating all of nature's devices
to give shelter to the vulnerable,
a veritable demonstration of the
inventor's creation assuming an
entitlement all its own. Sending
probing daggers of frigid misery
in a raptor's penetration of fur and
feathers, tree bark and down-filled
jackets alike, those afflicted in the
misery of the wind's ill humour
on damply-ferocious landscapes
of thickly falling snow exert all
energy to survive the deadly
combination whose exposure will
leave in its wake a spirit wisping
from frozen remains while the
wind whips itself into a frenzy,
spinning a spiralling spindrift
illustrative of a demon's delight.