Winter Nights Poem by Joseph M Donatelli

Around the black glass oaks
Withered branch sticks glitter
Ice shuddering glass winds stutter

Night solidifies sheets of ice
My snug snow coat freezes iron tight
Frigidity and ice I see black light

Bright sky ice pond black
And sharp as a quick slap
freezes the hard woods crack

And winds ice knife slaughter
Slashing my thermal larder
Petrified my bones freeze harder

Honed carbon the steel ice wind
Whips porcelain pines white
Frost stiff trunk stalks glint

I'm vitreous clear and white
My cold thoughts freeze
I fossilize preserved in ice

White winds artic ice claws slash
Rough moons frozen pocked rock mask
Twelve black hours cold night shivers