Spirit of Winter

The parents melded through organic chemistry
amateur engineers coalescing proteins and minerals
making the instinctual body, instructions not included.
The people grow weary of unrelenting Summer
of atoms shaking with energy until they fall apart.
The collective dream of gears slowing to a halt
in the quiet of cold fill the body. The peasants
have revolted, and the Knights of Summer
have fallen, and all becomes anew.