Winterward

After the sunny week, when Nellie Crane had her custard pies, the weather turned a sharp corner — back winterward.

You may believe I went into November and looked winterward with a load off my soul, when now the General's health was come back; and with it his temper to wrangle and clash with me.

Fall is simply a direction, like west; fall is when things move winterward.

Before they do, though, this time I want one of them to tell me who was in charge of tracking my brother's swift progress sleepward and ever more winterward, footprints suddenly come to an end, like an unfinished sentence in the diary of an elderly teenager working the night shift alone, held up at gunpoint and abruptly deceased, halfway across a black snowfield.

One by one the summer resident birds depart; the migrants come through in a rush, the peak of each species' wave reached nearly in a week from the first one seen; the other or winterward side of the wave declines more slowly.

Oh, dear God, how lovely this flower, this strange youngness is the last-born wilding of the winterward grass.

The latter exhibit increased sensitivity to the temperature rise, associated with increases of winter runoff owing to snow melting and decreases of summer runoff owing to both a winterward shift of spring snowmelt runoff and an enhanced […]

It had a dying sweetness, a funereal majesty, a winterward regret.

O anointed with dust, What dry in your throat makes barren your tongue This winterward moment my presence has sung?

You said the wind through the trees Named the winterward soul.

The winterward heart moves to solstice with the stark sense that, tilted too far from its sun, it will chill.