The Longest Night of the Coldest Year

The dead of winter closes in
Outside the door, I hear the wind howl
It sweeps along the tundra soil
And carries discord on its way down

The dead of evening closes in
Outside, the world is clothed in shadow
The crawling nightfall winds about
The pulse of passing age to slow

Reluctant, anomic
The solstice isolates
The blizzard, unyielding
I bend under the weight
The cyclone advances,
Its tirade incomplete
The red and the gold
From the firmament retreat

To black eclipsing green,
The longest night the coldest year has seen
Strips the earth clean
Of all the dust, and rust, and kerosene

Heed now the howl of wind
So loud, it brings the mountain down
Follow the sound



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