Hello Winter

Winter, it seems, mislaid its
seasonal appointments calendar
and completely forgot its
timeless appearance, leaving
this landscape languishing in
the doldrums of late fall with its
dark skies and unrelieved vistas
of resentful forests brooding in
naked misery, their limbs devoid
of wind-shuffling foliage and
forest floors littered with
dessicated leaves grown mouldy
and dank. Finally, the puzzling
delay seems over, as winter
aroused itself for a belated
grand entrance, chilling the
atmosphere with frigid air
orchestrating a night's worth
of snow, then sweeping the sky
clear to shine the spotlight of
winter sun proudly on the arras
settling in for a prolonged visit.