A lone tree burns where the sky retreats, Snowman smiles, its buttons black suns, A car idles in the pale forgetting, Exhaust sighs in plumes of lost warmth, A world exhaling memories undone. Orange light breaks through the grey, Pastel scars on a frozen canvas, The snowman grins at the end of things, Winter's hymn, a silent fracture, A ghost parade of fading kings.