Twelve cards like


    a clock on the wall.


    Each card a number;


    Each card a month.


    January:


    Snow stars on a sapphire field;


    February:


    Sun-sheened boats on gentle waters.


    March,


    the Birth of Meteorological


    Spring;


    A Heart-shaped Cloud on an


    aerial canvas.


    April,


    a boat as elegant as


    a Swan;


    At one with Sky;


    In-tune with Sea.


    May;


    Sea and Sky once more:


    With a view of the realm


    between sand bed and


    surface;


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    Where yellow-tailed and


    jet-striped fish;


    Swim in the midst of a


    nautical dance.


    June,


    the start of


    Glorious Summer,


    Graced with pattern-stalked and


    rainbow-capped mushrooms;


    Their stalks mirrors of the pillars,


    No, tree trunks;


    That reach toward a cloud-wisped sky.


    July,


    as scarlet as Sister June


    is azure;


    A falcon-holding lady flanked by a lion


    and a unicorn.


    August,


    the End,


    and also the


    Beginning.


    A cream-wisp beach,


    A matching boat;


    A hammock from which a soul


    rests in near-paradise.


    A tortoise soars into the


    firmament of September,


    To catch a disc with the


    luminosity of the sun:


    Whilst the azure sky


    of October,


    Is graced by a pair of doves


    with the plumage of snow.


    May is the name for the


    green field of November;


    Over which lies a sun with


    rays of magenta and a centre


    of amethyst.


    Yet the ultramarine sky


    returns for December;


    As deep as the chateauwalls are pale.


    With weathercocks that


    glisten like avians of gold;


    Above a vista of emerald,


    violet grapes and a not-so-winter harvest.


    Yet December is not the end,


    nor the last card:


    For in the centre of the twelve


    lies one named


    Thirteen;


    The scene of which is a


    mirror of the cards that


    encircle the centre:


    Three Kings,


    Mother and Father,


    Angels, Servants and


    a Radiant Child.


    Twelve Cards,


    Twelve Months,


    And a Thirteenth in


    the centre.