December, you snuck up on me.
Crept through my backyard like a stray cat, silent and gray.
Not a single yowl of warning.
No merow of mourning for November's stolen summer days.
Now the grass is coated with your hoary carpet, and angels' dandruff litters the sky.
I thought a few plants might survive the chill caress of your first frost.
I was
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