Overwintered

Teeth chatter Automatically A beat clicking double-time To the crunch of snow An animal Licks a beater A northern flicker Clucks a whimper A beep goes off inside Is it time? Or just a timer? Decalcomania Ironed on our hides by the Scarlet fever-stricken Two-bit hypocritical Neopuritan-tan-tans Turning on a dime, a dime, a dime What are they? A little more Than kin And less than kind We live in the same But we run on Different Time, time, time You are safe You are sound You are safe You are sound Ooh I feel your frequency Resonate at my core Enkindle my extremities Echo through my bones Hiccup out its tones Oooh-mm Oooh-mm Oooh-mm-mmmm-mm-mm-mm Oooh-mm Oooh-mm-mmmm-mm-mm-mm We face apocalypses every day And fumble stricken phrases We ball up to play When we feel forlorn Just keep peeling those little oranges They keep stealing, we keep peeling Stuck on an uneven keeling Every great and snowy egret's Speaking of my evening grossness Every evening grosbeak's Speaking of my great and snowy egress Even if we deviate Even if we deviate The ice rink's set to counterclockwise There's no exit 'til we skate I lurch along the verge A strawberry-less frozen biscuit My flimsy figure zero traps A miraculous lemniscate When the intercom comes through I think I've lost my refound calling Oh, winter tanager You help me walk but you leave me crawling You are a cardinal You are a cardinal And I should be so lucky As to be a part of you at all You are safe You are sound You are safe You are sound Oooh-mm Oooh-mm Oooh-mm-mmmm-mm-mm-mm Oooh-mm Oooh-mm-mmmm-mm-mm-mm You bring the tropics to these chilly parts The contrast shocks my system Chilblains swell upon my heart