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December Flower

• A minute down the street a garden blooms
• A tree rebels against December, spring
• Too early graces its bare branches, dooms
• The flow'rs to freeze in a budding ending
• This is no fact-based theory, no vague
• Discussing of the global warming threat
• No TV show about the latest plague
• No day or month too cold, too hot, too wet
• It tells in silence, "Cycles just begin
• Again." Its snowy white leaves form a bell
• Then, one last time touch strokes its fragile skin
• Aeolus breathes, a species waves farewell
• The days will lengthen, but at winter's end
• In naked death this blooming tree will stand