snuffing the candle at both ends

it's only november and the sun sets at about 4:30! yikes! it'll be 3:30 by the time solstice arrives...nothing else to do but write a poem about it:

sun rising late

sun setting soon

candle being

snuffed at both ends

so, this is

how the year ends...

the attitude

of 52-degrees latitude

shivering winter

arms akimbo

will greet march

with open arms