December in Missouri and the Angel of Frost has come.
I see Summer's patchwork of fields faded--
Into a unity of color: The ploughed ground,
Raped of growth at harvest time,
Can no longer hold the brown of Spring rains.
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Now it seems only to reflect
A sky of grayness--as does the nearby meadow.
A meadow eaten alive months before by cows.
Still, now and then, the traveler may pass
Ruins of an already forgotten splender--
Cornfields and hayfields,
Their growth left to the hunger of a rotter called Time
And January snows.
This is the hawk's feudal domain.
A lone bird flying at midday in search of a rabbit
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