Icy Dead of Winter

February wants us to know
that is is folly to bask in the
comfort of hearing climatologists
wax knowledgeably about the
el Nino phenomenon interfering
with the Arctic freeze penetrating
our winter season this year.
True, the early month has not
been sub-zero and we've been
treated to delightfully mild 
winter days and scintillating
snow events, but the wind
has been constant and substantial
whipping icy currents across
the atmosphere, yet that has
been tolerable. To wrest us from
complacency, the month has
now turned its impenetrable face
toward the depth of winter's fury
harnessing icy bluster and
misery to plunge the temperature
and us into the sphere of Arctic
chill. February's warning heeded.