Cold

* cold *
This cold insinuates itself
Between collar and skin
Up cuff and over arm
Down your back
Sweeps up trouser leg
Slaps your face to bruise
With icy cold snap of hand
As this cold addresses
Cold freezes and trangresses
The defences of heat set
Getting underneath draws cold
Winter fingers down your skin
Makes you flinch at this touch
Cold as ice and set by wind
The huntmaster of this pack
To try and chill you to the bone
Leaves you shivering from cold
Has you in it frigid hold
This winter day of beauty raw
Heavy clouds so high and bold
Set their with intention to
Make you fully aware
Of the creeping sneaking chill cold air.