in winter's grip...snow lies deep...fragile tower...secrets in keep...aggregate... a stone-born child...by earth's embrace...warmed and chilled...in fragile balance...it stands...silent sentinel...looking across the lands... as year gives way to year anew...stones whisper tales...old and true...shifting snow sands...changing drift tides...earth's deep tremors... where life resides...deer stand still...in winter's trance...as crows take flight...in eerie dance...a flock of ducks...against the sky... a kaleidoscopic...fleeting sigh...they paint the heavens...wings so bright...fleeting moment...bathed in light...aggregate...a silent ear... to whispers borne on winter air...