Let's hold hands and skate on the river we'll waste away the winter together
not just in the sweet sugar snow in before our toes get any colder
but in the awful wind too in the ice and the dark
when the roads and sky go gravel grey and the spirit of giving fades quickly away
we'll spend all we have but stay by the fire until the worst of winter gives way to May.
For a while I'd been avoiding rhyme and alliteration to somehow seem more serious and sensible in writing but I've realized that takes so much of the fun away from reading, so I'm working on working fun turns of phrase back in.