Ashiver

Father Christmas, behold, all ashiver with cold, But the parent of blessings too vast to be told;

The wind that sets the yellowed grass ashiver ’neath the Sun.

He walked in the direction of Rooble’s, his lips ashiver with the shibboleths of the pious, thanking Allah for the loan of breath, life and soul; praying that Allah, the Prophets and the Saints would stay him during these most tempting hours.

The pipal tree — of course! She stared at its massive trunk, pale in the moonlight, and the sinuous branches and twigs silvery and ashiver […]