Winter's Icy Slumber

The frozen woods stand still
and moodily hushed in the
lee of a diminishing day. A
hazy white half-moon shares
a cloudless pewter sky with a
golden blazing sun incapable
of penetrating the cold
clamped over the landscape
below. Bare tree trunks stand
stark and dark against the
white damask clothing the
forest. Though wan, sun
rays slant their way past the
bare canopy to illuminate
without warmth, the static
scene of winter's icy slumber.