acid washed trees
shed leaves
emerge skeletal
and reveal cold blue
of sky
 
shift in wind
brings cries of
migrating birds
last brief moments
of warmth
sublimate
into the sight
of breath
freezing in the air
and a chill felt deep
in the bones
 
too many nights
of black stabbed
with stars
cries of a child
as teeth
chewing through flesh
for the first time
emerge
 
the skeleton peeking out
 
the death's head
 
laughing