a creep upon the wind
and turn of subtle leaves
the stir in the faint breeze
the gust of cold
the stir of bramble bush
and naked tree
the scuttled squirrels and honk of geese
the paddled ducks remove their frozen feet
from hardened water and standstill lake
the slush has come
the temperature dropped
the snow to fall and ice among
the slumbered earth, the frigid cold
whose snores sing along the whistled song.