White Icing.
As scarlet and gold start fading faster
precocious December
turns autumn to mash.
Binned is all colour while brassy December
nakedly captures
a chill to remember
December likes cake thick with white icing
topped high in lashings
and flake-decorated.
Christmas may melt her with warm regalia
of tree-festive air
yet freezing she favours.
Raw is December and before long unless
rain thawed her ice-bite
caress stays relentless.