The Taciturn Season

As a tactician of matchless
skills Nature has no peer
though pretenders proliferate.
She has delivered yet another
temporary tease, while
withholding complete ushering
in of spring, as though deigning
in her magisterial manner to
to respond to pathetic plaints 
that we suffer unbearable misery 
in the lingering presence of
winter snarling its defiance
of the season's imperative that
he exit along with his minions
wind, icy temperatures, snow.
That tease, while posing as a 
sincere apology for our cold 
discomfort arrives in the guise 
of a balmy breeze shifting mild air 
and spring-reborn sunrays to melt
the snowpack before another
'unseasonal' snow event presents.