Winter is so long and hard

“Winter, you’re so long and hard”

sighed Summer between

Impassioned trusts

As they danced, tethering long and back.

Winter’s a keeper; raw, intense

Unafraid of opinion

Dark and black

But Winter strokes a timely dame

With softer whispers and a timid

Smile. She awakens

Green and faintly frosted

Meets Winter in his endless night

Singing in his sordid seduction

He rumbles as he slides inside her

Spring-green, afresh, a new man.

Sometimes, alone, he forgets Spring

He dreams of Summer and her endless days

He hears her singing in her Summer rain

He feels her stripping her fresh leaves and

Parting wild bushes for Autumn to paint

A vileness only made viler because

Jealousy had no home between them

He dreams of her and she dreams of him

But the two never again did meet