It's Still Life

You Will Know It Is Winter

When you step outside
into blind white,
and cold comes at you,

not as a chill, 
but as a wall of blinded colour,

and frost squeals
under the bite of your boots,

and every step fractures
the sound of snow falling,

you will know it is winter.

for dVerse “Personification” © Misky 2021. Header image is extract from Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder