RED DECEMBER

December came with warmth and sunshine.  I grumbled about the warm until the proper weather arrived, and since then I've been grumbling about cold.  But as yet there has been no snow, which is what I really wanted.  So far it has been a dark, red December.  Dark like shadows on the walls, dark like a tree in front of the moon, and red like the bench by our front door and a forest of coke bottles.