Frosty Winter

by Callie Taggart

lofty trees

overpowered by the

winter snow

laced with a thousand

sparkling diamonds

the towering treetops

create a canopy

of exquisite white

a sheet of ice

lies beneath

their frozen trunk

a numbing cold air

stings even the earth

and yet

this snowy frost is only

a prelude

of the fierce storm

that will follow

Illustration by Emerson Romney Abraham